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Free Software NVIDIA Driver Now Supports 3D Acceleration With All GeForce GPUs

Posted by Soulskill on from the can-now-outmaneuver-Khan dept.

aloniv writes "The reverse-engineered free/libre and open source driver for NVIDIA cards Nouveau has reached another milestone. 'The Nouveau driver in the current Linux 3.8 development branch has recently acquired everything that's necessary to support the 3D acceleration features of any GeForce graphics hardware. Together with a current version of libdrm and the Nouveau 3D driver in Mesa 3D 9.0, this allows Linux applications to use 3D acceleration even with the most recent GeForce graphics cards."

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  1. Re:Good News by ghetto2ivy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now people can stop bitching about how "free" a driver is and just concentrate on how well it works.

    Or just use an OS that actually works with modern hardware

    Or just use hardware that works with a modern OS.

  2. Re:Good News by VortexCortex · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now people can stop bitching about how "free" a driver is and just concentrate on how well it works.

    Or just use an OS that actually works with modern hardware

    Or just buy hardware from manufacturers that release open source drivers, so your OS choice isn't limited by your hardware choices.