Mesa 7.11 Brings Much-Needed Linux Graphics Driver Improvements

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Intel Driver Is Now Doing Triple-Bufferred Page-Flips

The Intel Linux X.Org driver is now doing triple-buffered page-flips in the latest attempt to battle in-perfect frames with tears or jitters. This is now the default behavior with the next xf86-video-intel release...

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NVIDIA Linux Driver Now Does GL_EXT_x11_sync_object

NVIDIA's Linux/Unix engineering team has issued a new Linux beta driver in the 275.xx series. To succeed the first 275.xx Linux beta that was put out a few weeks back, NVIDIA has released the 275.09.04 Beta. There's only a few changes in this beta released today, but among them is...

NVIDIA's Linux/Unix engineering team has issued a new Linux beta driver in the 275.xx series. To succeed the first 275.xx Linux beta that was put out a few weeks back, NVIDIA has released the 275.09.04 Beta. There's only a few changes in this beta released today, but among them is support for the GL_EXT_x11_sync_object extension...

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VIA KMS Linux Driver Still Far From Being Ready

In the KMS (kernel mode-setting) world there is not only news today to report on a new open-source Freescale KMS driver, but on the state of VIA's kernel mode-setting driver. VIA Technologies may have killed off their open-source strategy, but for the past number of months there's been a developer writing a VIA KMS/TTM DRM driver that would work with the OpenChrome user-space X.Org driver...

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VIA KMS Linux Driver Still Far From Being Ready

In the KMS (kernel mode-setting) world there is not only news today to report on a new open-source Freescale KMS driver, but on the state of VIA's kernel mode-setting driver. VIA Technologies may have killed off their open-source strategy, but for the past number of months there's been a developer writing a VIA KMS/TTM DRM driver that would work with the OpenChrome user-space X.Org driver...

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