Laurent Rineau wrote:
Nevertheless, as far as I know, NVidia cards under Linux is the only
available option for my needs at work: I need a crunching 3D OpenGL that
can eat lots of triangles. When I had a look last time (January 2009),
NVidia proprietary drivers seemed to be the best option, on the
performances side. ATI drivers were not supporting recent 3D cards, and
Intel 3D performances were a joke.
Fedora 12 now ships with a mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package which
provides 3D support for the Radeon HD cards (r6xx and newer). Chances are
they will no longer be experimental by Fedora 13.
As far as openness matters, Intel seems to be the best open source
support, but AFAIK the Intel developers are not giving specs of Intel
cards: they only gives open source drivers, and third-part developers have
difficulties to fix bugs in Intel drivers. That is not that good.
Intel actually did release some specs:
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html
Kevin Kofler