Windows Vista hardware requirements

[Eric Feliksik]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> (...) EXA will
> accelerate Composite just fine on i128 (Number #9 Imagine hardware),
> which was a joke in 1996, and is even worse now.  Xgl doesn't have any
> onerous hardware requirements whatsoever, unless you want to run like
> seven videos all alpha-blended, in which case I'd posit that you need
> help anyway.
> 
> So yeah, hardware requirements of that order would have to come from
> some apps with phenomenally heavy X requirements, not the mere presence
> of OpenGL-accelerated servers.  We can do that on embarassingly low-end
> hardware just fine. :)
> 
> 

[This mail is about glx support]

I have a ProSavage8 video chip of which the hardware acceleration does 
not work under Ubuntu by default. I saw the DRI people of 
freedesktop.org working on a driver, but it was very unstable when I 
tried (less than a year ago).

My point is: the stuff I read about the xorg-features are *way* cool, 
but software acceleration often isn't enough. Can the features actually 
be used freely? With what hardware? How is the state of free drivers for 
OpenGL hardware in Linux-land at the moment? I know nvidia ships binary 
drivers to get the hardware acceleration to work, but Ubuntu does not, 
with good reasons IMO.

Thanks,

Eric