In August Intel had announced their new Linux graphics driver website as well as announcing the immediate availability of open-source display drivers for the 965 Express Chipset. This Chipset offers fourth-generation Intel graphics architectures in the form of the GMA 3000 and GMA X3000. Phoronix ran some tests on the Q965 Chipset and GMA 3000 graphics with their open-source drivers, and have their results to share today under GNU/Linux.
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meianoite: Intel beginning to take their graphic chips more seriously and to position themselves as the graphics alternative for the open source community, or does it only demonstrate how horrid the ATI drivers for anything non-Windows are?
The article specifically said that the ATI card was driven by the FOSS R300 driver. There was a reference of another article comparing the propritary ATI driver to the FOSS alternative, however. I didn't read it, i don't care for limited-rights software.
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I think the FOSS camp have had plenty of beef with Intel over the years, and they aren't out of the woods yet (specs for some chipsets are still being withheld in limbo, unfortunately for my chances of ever getting decent TV-Out). But they are certainly seeing a lot more love on the back of these recent efforts.
Personally, when I bought my current lo-fi laptop (4 years ago approx.) I was a humble Windows user, and the Intel Graphics board was the downside of the purchase. Now, as a Linux user, it's probably the BEST part of the package 
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I'm just saddened by the fact that notebook users will have to wait on Intel for a whole year before they can experience a similar GPU boost with the Santa Rosa platform. 'Cause frankly, as it is right now, gaming stuff like UT2k4 with all the bells & whistles on integrated graphics is pretty much non-existant, regardless of what Intel wants us to believe.
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I *think* he's referring to Theo's argument about writing device drivers with an NDA so that only the NDA agreer can really fix bugs in the device driver. See here for more details:
http://lwn.net/Articles/203562/
I'm not sure it applies to these drivers though, and I'm not a kernel developer so I can't tell if it has the issues listed in LWN.NET, but even if it does, it's definitely a step above the NVIDIA maintainened but closed source XGL drivers and two steps above the unmaintained closed source ATI XGL drivers.
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The driver can work completely without intel_hal.so. See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-September/018437.ht....
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Is this integrated into the current x.org 7.1? Will it be in 7.2?
With the recent modularization of Xorg version numbers no longer matter. You don't have to wait for a new version of X to come out. The drivers are all separate now. Drivers should be compatible with the current version of X.
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