wraggster
January 6th, 2013, 20:06
The reverse-engineered free/libre and open source driver for NVIDIA cards Nouveau (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/) has reached another milestone. 'The Nouveau driver in the current Linux 3.8 development branch (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=summary) has recently acquired everything that's necessary to support the 3D acceleration features of any GeForce graphics hardware (http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Open-source-Linux-driver-supports-3D-acceleration-with-all-GeForce-GPUs-1776089.html). 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.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/05/2134220/free-software-nvidia-driver-now-supports-3d-acceleration-with-all-geforce-gpus
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/01/05/2134220/free-software-nvidia-driver-now-supports-3d-acceleration-with-all-geforce-gpus