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Mesa 3D 9.1 brings OpenGL 3.1 Support on Radeon GPUs

Monday, 25 February 2013 05:03 The H

The now available Mesa 3D 9.1 supports Intel's Haswell and OpenGL ES 3.0. The driver for recent Radeon graphics chips is slowly becoming suitable for production use...

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Freedreno Graphics Driver Approaches Mainline

Sunday, 17 February 2013 12:16 Phoronix

The Freedreno graphics driver that supports reverse-engineered Qualcomm ARM graphics is nearing a state of mainline support within Linux...

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Microsoft Publishes Linux GPU Frame-Buffer Driver

Sunday, 17 February 2013 10:00 Phoronix

Microsoft's Linux kernel contributions continue... This time around they have published a synthetic frame-buffer driver...

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AMD Radeon 2D Performance On Linux Remains Mixed

Wednesday, 13 February 2013 07:25 Phoronix

The results in yesterday's article, AMD Radeon Gallium3D Starting To Out-Run Catalyst In Some Cases, were interesting but limited to OpenGL games. In this article are more test results from the same system configuration and Ubuntu Linux releases but now taking a look at the 2D performance ...

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BSDs Struggle With Open-Source Graphics Drivers

Friday, 08 February 2013 05:51 Phoronix

While there's plenty of code pouring into the Linux world for bettering open-source graphics drivers from desktop graphics cards to ARM SoCs, in the *BSD world they are struggling with their graphics driver support. Matthieu Herrb gave a presentation on the (rather poor) state of graphics on Unix-like platforms outside...

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