On Friday, September 28, 2012 12:49:38 Christopher Howard wrote:
> Does your laptop have 3D graphics acceleration? What GPU chipset does it
> have, and what graphics drivers do you use?
>
> In short: I'm not really looking to buy a new system; I'm actually on a
> quest to figure out how I can get accelerated 3D graphics without giving
> up my FOSS principles. I found out that the Radeon chipset in my current
> machine requires the use of a non-free firmware blob in the kernel. So
> I'm looking at specs from the "FOSS compatible" systems to see what they
> are using.
Ah, I gotcha. It's an nVidia graphics card. I use the nVidia driver for 3D.
Unless you use something like this: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
I'm pretty sure you'll need proprietary drivers. And even the Nouveau driver
doesn't match the nVidia driver for performance yet (IIRC).
j
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