Open source 3d acceleration

Posted by nuxi on 2009-Dec-13 at 04:09:00 in Computers (Login to reply)

I updated my desktop to the 2.6.32 kernel today and was greated with a pleasent suprise. I have 3d acceleration with the open source radeon X driver now! I stopped using the closed source fglrx driver a few months ago because ATI dropped support my laptop's graphics card. This kind of pissed me off because that card isn't even 3 years old yet.

I'm not sure if it was the new graphics layer in the 2.6.32 kernel or an update to Xorg that I hadn't restarted X for that did it. Regardless of how it happened, it is awesome. I tried enabling KMS support too, but I need the 1.7 release of Xorg for that I'm still on 1.6.

I've been getting my quake3 fix today...