Re: intel i915 and opengl acceleration

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 03:01:53AM -0700, carlos duarte wrote:
| i'm intersted in buying the eeepc. i intend to use it for all kinds of
| desktop work, up to and including blender3d, which works best under
| accelerated opengl.
| 
| the intel gma 900 (i915) that the eeepc uses, does has xorg support
| (as stated here http://www.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver )  ..except
| that i can't really tell whether this just means xorg support, or full
| 3d opengl accelerated support..
| 
| what do you guys think?

I think that accelerated 3d is still under heavy / active development
so my advice would be to 'try it and see for yourself'. -current is
your best bet.

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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