OT: Accelerated 3D GFX cards with Free drivers (was Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: The best distro for music creation)

[Lee Revell]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 18:54 +0000, Rob Fell wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> > ... It would be understandable if
> > there was no 3D hardware available with open drivers but that's not the
> > case.
> 
> Given that I'm considering building a new machine, can you point to 
> references please?  I wasn't aware any 3D GFX manufacturer had released 
> any significant specs/code...

Intel and VIA have 3D chipsets with open drivers.  You're not going to
get insanely high frame rates but that's the price of freedom ;-)

There's also this project:

http://www.opengraphics.org

Lee