Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 11th May 2007 18:17 UTC, submitted by diegocg
"The Intel 965GM Express Chipset represents the first mobile product that
implements fourth generation Intel graphics architecture. Designed to
support advanced rendering features in modern graphics APIs, this chipset
includes support for programmable vertex, geometry, and fragment shaders. Extending Intel's commitment to work with the X.org and Mesa communities to continuously improve and enhance the drivers, support for this new chipset is provided through the X.org 2.0 Intel driver and the Mesa 6.5.3 releases. These drivers represent significant work by both Intel and the broader open source community."
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2006-07-24
Actually, based upon recent research that I needed, Intel has a roughly 40% market share in graphics chips.
Compare that to both nVidia and ATI at about 23% each.
I too have become frustrated with nVidia. I have had Dell laptops with nVidia cards running Linux since RH 8.0.
The now lingering (> 6 months) issue of black windows when running Beryl has facilitated an increasing level of frustration on the nVidia forums and elsewhere. This is due to a TurboCache bug in the current generations of drivers from them.
The official word is that 'it is being worked on', but even the recently released beta versions of their Linux drivers were largely to support new cards, not to fix open bugs.
In the mean time, their official resolution is to disable Beryl. Some kind community folks have spent a fair amount of time trying to debug the issue using the various settings in the Beryl manage with some success, but most of the solutions don't seem to work for cards with modest amounts of VRAM (ie. <128 Mb).
nVidia seems to be more focused on supporting Linux on new cards, rather than doing what they need to do to keep existing customers happy.
When time comes to replace my current laptop, if nVidia's attitude and the status of these open issues have not changed, I will be buying a laptop with Intel graphics chips.