[ltp] Re: What to take care of when buying a Lenovo? revisited

John Sullivan linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:17:48 -0400


Robert Tomsick <robert@tomsick.net> writes:

> Unless I'm mistaken, noveau does support 3D, although the support is
> very much a work in progress.  I know it can support compositing WMs and
> some games, and I know it's good enough to give me pretty shadows and
> translucency, etc. on my desktop.

Yes, that's right.

Also, the ATI free drivers require a rather substantial proprietary
blob -- nowadays for 2D as well as 3D, since 2D is emulated.

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