"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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Member since:2006-01-11
Are you jocking? Installing Nvidia propietary drivers is a pain in the ass. Nothing comes close to open source Intel drivers that get compiled and included along the rest of opensource drivers.
Sure they are a pain in the ass on Linux - but for that you need to blame Linus for his infinite wisdom about no stable kernel APIs.
FreeBSD and Solaris do not suffer from any such problems.
Member since:2005-07-08
On all of these *nix systems, the majority of the driver support lives in userspace and interacts with the driver interface in the X server, which is under a non-copyleft, non-share-alike license. The part that involves the kernel is the direct rendering code, which interacts with the DRI framework. To get around the linking problem with the Linux kernel, this part of the nVidia driver lives in userspace and talks to a GPL shim layer that they load into the kernel. If the DRI changes, they only need to update their shim.
FreeBSD and Solaris face challenges because Linux DRI is advancing beyond their capabilities, mainly due to contributions from Intel. FreeBSD and especially Solaris are mostly locked into the frameworks they have. This is the double-edged sword of stable interfaces. As nVidia works to keep their shim in sync with Linux DRI, it becomes a hassle to continue to support these other kernels.
In his "infinite wisdom," Linus decided that eventually people's patience with--and trust in--proprietary drivers will run out, making stable in-kernel interfaces a non-issue. The Linux kernel development model works great for OSS drivers, and most hardware will eventually be supported by OSS drivers. Our suffering is temporary and for a good reason.
Member since:2006-01-07
"Sure they are a pain in the ass on Linux - but for that you need to blame Linus for his infinite wisdom about no stable kernel APIs."
A stable in-kernel API does nothing but hinder further development in terms of new features and bugfixes. Please read Grek KH's response on this for more info, called "stable_kernel_nonsense.txt" in the kernel source's Documentation directory. (It's also available online at his site: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html )
(Sorry, I meant to vote you down but clicked the wrong button. Would someone do so for me please? 
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Member since:2006-12-18
How is it a pain in the ass to install them? If your distro doenst have them in their reposotory, just download them, and just run the script! make sure you have the kernel-headers installed, and its just fine!
On the other hand, I havent experienced this sucking of nvidia drivers that some says... I think they work really well. They have legacy drivers for linux, witch at least provide hardware 3d for older cards. Configuring dualhead without editing a line in xorg.conf is pretty nice, I was actually surprised it worked that good with 'nvidia-settings'.
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"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline.""It was the only moment I heard regret slip into Otellini's voice during the several hours of conversations I had with him. 'The lesson I took away from that was, while we like to speak with data around here, so many times in my career I've ended up making decisions with my gut, and I should have followed my gut,' he said. 'My gut told me to say yes.'" The world would've been a much different place - Apple would have been less dependant on Samsung for its chips, which probably would've meant less money for Samsung to develop its Galaxy business.Glass is getting some love at Google I/O as well. New applications have been released - Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Elle, Tumblr, and CNN. Perhaps more interesting: the newly announced Google Glass Developer Kit will allow offline applications and direct hardware access - great for hacking and expanding Glass' potential. This kit will really allow hackers to put Glass through its paces."But Beck and Merrill decided that simply banning toxic players wasn't an acceptable solution for their game. Riot Games began experimenting with more constructive modes of player management through a formal player behavior initiative that actually conducts controlled experiments on its player base to see what helps reduce bad behavior. The results of that initiative have been shared at a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on panels at the Penny Arcade Expo East and the Game Developers Conference." Absolutely fascinating stuff. I'm a League of Legends player, and to be honest, the community isn't nearly as bad as some make it out to be. I'm happy Riot games has the guts to employ science to address the issue.
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2005-07-08
Mesa GL doesn't even come close to working properly with OpenGL games like Quake and DoomIII.
Mesa is software rendering. Why would you want Mesa. You want good drivers that avoid you using Mesa rendering.
Sorry but open source video drivers are just junk!
Most of them, but not Intel's. Intel is doing their *OWN* drivers and releasing them. They have the specs, they've the money to hire programmers....their drivers are fast, they're feature-complete, unlike other crappy opensource drivers
Nothing comes close to Nvidia's driver packages for Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux.
Are you jocking? Installing Nvidia propietary drivers is a pain in the ass. Nothing comes close to open source Intel drivers that get compiled and included along the rest of opensource drivers.