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NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 470/480
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| If you wondered why NVIDIA chose today to
| announce its canning the xf86-video-nv
| driver for all future GPUs and diverting
| users to use the VESA X.Org driver (even
| though most of them will start out using
| the Nouveau driver) until downloading their
| proprietary driver, it's because they have
| finally launched Fermi.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEwNQ
H.264 VA-API Support For Intel Clarkdale/Arrandale
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| Intel's Zou Nan hai has published a patch
| for the Intel kernel DRM code that provides
| multiple ring buffer support for Clarkdale
| and Arrandale systems, in other words
| Intel's new IGPs that are embedded onto
| CPUs such as the new Core i3 530 and its
| stellar integrated graphics.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEwNg
Mesa 7.7.1 & 7.8.0 Released For Open-Source 3D
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| Ian Romanick has just released the 7.7.1
| and 7.8.0 versions of the Mesa3D open-
| source OpenGL stack with the DRI/Gallium3D
| drivers. As planned, this release is coming
| right on time for the end of March with
| Intel preparing to make its quarterly Linux
| graphics driver update and there is also
| the release of X Server 1.8 coming in the
| near future.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEwOA
S3TC Support For Mesa Brought Up Again
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| Besides the Mesa 7.8 release announcement
| hitting the Mesa mailing list over the
| weekend, also catching our interest is a
| new discussion concerning S3TC texture
| compression in this open-source software
| stack. One of the developers working on
| Spring RTS, an open-source real-time
| strategy game engine for Linux and Windows,
| is wanting the open-source Mesa developers
| to implement S3TC texture
| compression/decompression. But this is a
| rather sticky situation.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEwOQ
Catalyst vs. Mesa Performance With Ubuntu 10.04
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| Over the past two weeks, we have published
| a variety of articles looking at different
| aspects of the open-source Linux graphics
| stack. These articles range from comparing
| the Gallium3D and classic Mesa performance
| to comparing the kernel mode-setting and
| user-space mode-setting performance. Today
| we are continuing with this interesting
| Linux graphics coverage by publishing
| benchmarks comparing the performance of the
| Radeon Mesa DRI graphics driver to AMD's
| Catalyst 10.4 proprietary driver. Is the
| open-source driver finally catching up to
| AMD's highly optimized driver? Continue
| reading to find out.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_fglrx_open&num=1
NVIDIA Drops Their Open-Source Driver, Refers Users To VESA Driver
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| The VESA driver does not provide much
| besides user mode-setting for most all
| VESA-compatible graphics cards and its
| acceleration is limited to ShadowFB (a
| shadow frame-buffer on the CPU). It is
| really not a solution for anything besides
| being useful when recovering from a bad X
| configuration or other problems.
| Fortunately, for the end-user, this will
| not be the case with most distributions.
| The real reason NVIDIA is likely canning
| their xf86-video-nv mess is since the
| Nouveau driver is reaching a point where
| its entering the limelight with its
| mainline DRM, kernel mode-setting support,
| and emerging Gallium3D support for
| providing OpenGL acceleration in free
| software. The Nouveau kernel code entered
| the Linux 2.6.33 kernel a few months back.
| As of last December though, Andy Ritger
| told us that at that point they were not
| going to change their nv driver support
| strategy based on Nouveau.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_kills_nv&num=1
AMD Catalyst 10.3 For Linux Released
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| AMD has just put out their monthly update
| of the Catalyst Linux driver. Though as we
| already know based upon AMD giving Ubuntu a
| new driver, the support for X Server 1.7 is
| not coming until next month, which also
| offers official Eyefinity support and other
| changes. As such, Catalyst 10.3 isn't too
| interesting.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA5OQ
radeontool 1.6.1 released
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| I've just done a 1.6.1 release of
| radeontool from my personal repo, it
| contains both radeontool and avivotool, and
| is probably full of ugly but whats in
| distros now is older and worse.
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http://airlied.livejournal.com/72345.html
Woah, AMD Releases OpenGL 4.0 Linux Support!
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| Woah, here comes a pleasant surprise from
| AMD with their Catalyst Linux driver. AMD
| yesterday released a Catalyst 10.3 Linux
| driver that really didn't bring anything
| too exciting (and it still doesn't support
| X.Org Server 1.7), but today they've
| delivered a new preview driver that's based
| on Catalyst 10.3 and it brings OpenGL
| 3.3/4.0 support!
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEwMQ
Testing AMD's New FirePro Linux Driver With The FirePro V8750
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| Earlier this month AMD rolled out a new
| workstation graphics card driver, which is
| effectively the same Catalyst driver used
| by the consumer-oriented Radeon graphics
| cards but with greater testing and
| certification for the ATI workstation
| offerings. The press release announcing
| this new driver was titled "Application
| Performance Increases By Up To 20 Percent
| with Latest ATI FirePro Graphics Driver,"
| so we decided to see if this proprietary
| driver really lives up to its claims under
| Linux.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_firepro_q210&num=1
Benchmarking Recent Mesa 3D Releases
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| With Mesa 7.8 arriving this month, we took
| the time to benchmark a few recent releases
| of the Mesa 3D stack with the Radeon DRI
| driver to see how the OpenGL performance
| has changed -- if at all -- over the past
| few months. In this article are our R500
| Mesa benchmarks from the Mesa 7.6, 7.7,
| 7.8-rc1, and 7.9-devel releases.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa_78_performance&num=1
Radeon GPU Recovery To Hit Linux 2.6.34 Kernel
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| David Airlie has just asked Linus to pull
| in his latest DRM branch for the Linux
| 2.6.34 kernel. This branch provides fixes
| to the DRM core, Nouveau, and Radeon KMS.
| The new Radeon DRM code brings fixes, but
| it also brings a clean-up to the ASIC
| tables and GPU recovery support.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODEwMA
X.Org Server 1.8 Release Candidate 2
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| X Server 1.8 may be the first X.Org release
| in recent times where it's released on time
| or at least close to being on schedule.
| Back in October, X Server 1.8 was given a
| release date of the 31st of March. This is
| just a little over a week away, but it
| looks like this next major update to the X
| Server that brings udev input handling,
| DRI2 updates, xorg.conf.d support, and
| other changes.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA4OQ
Mesa 7.8 Release Imminent: RC2 Pushed
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA5MA
NVIDIA Releases OpenGL 3.3 Linux Driver
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| Well, that didn't take long. Just earlier
| this month the Khronos Group unveiled the
| OpenGL 4.0 specification that brought many
| long-awaited changed to this open graphics
| API. On the same day this industry
| consortium also released the OpenGL 3.3
| specification, which aims to bring back as
| much of the OpenGL 4.0 functionality to
| graphics cards that only support OGL3.
| OpenGL 4.0 is designed for graphics cards
| that are meant for DirectX 11.0, which
| basically means AMD's Radeon HD 5000 series
| and NVIDIA's forthcoming GeForce 400
| series. OpenGL 3.x on the other-hand is
| compatible with DirectX 10.0 grade
| hardware, such as the Radeon HD 4000 series
| and GeForce 200 series. For those with a
| newer NVIDIA graphics card, you can now run
| OpenGL 3.3 applications or games as they
| have just released a supported driver.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA3Nw
Mesa Receives Some OpenGL 3 Love
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| OpenGL 3.0 was announced in the summer of
| 2007 and since then we have seen the
| subsequent releases of the 3.1, 3.2, and
| 3.3 specifications. Just last week there
| was even the release of OpenGL 4.0. The
| proprietary Linux graphics drivers have
| picked up support for these latest industry
| standard specifications, but it hasn't been
| smooth sailing in the open-source world.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA4Mw
GPU Offloading PRIME May Get Improvements
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| A week ago we reported on open-source GPU
| offloading, which allowed multiple GPUs
| from different vendors that were backed by
| open-source graphics drivers to offload the
| 3D rendering work to a secondary GPU and
| then to pass the rendered result back to
| the primary GPU driving the display.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA4NQ
NVIDIA's New CUDA Toolkit Supports Fermi
http://news.softpedia.com/news/NVIDIA-s-New-CUDA-Toolkit-Supports-Fermi-137992.shtml
With Fermi Coming, NVIDIA Releases CUDA 3.0
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| The NVIDIA Fermi support in CUDA 3.0
| includes native 64-bit GPU support,
| multiple copy engine support, ECC
| reporting, concurrent kernel execution,
| Fermi hardware debugging support via cuda-
| gdb, and Fermi hardware profiling support
| for CUDA's C and OpenCL via the NVIDIA
| Visual Profiler. The first of the NVIDIA
| Fermi graphics cards in the GeForce 400
| series, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 and
| GeForce GTX 480, are expected to be
| launched in just a few days and are both
| built upon the "GF100" core.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODA4Ng
Radeon 3D Performance: Gallium3D vs. Classic Mesa
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| It has taken years of work for Tungsten
| Graphics (now VMware) and the Linux
| development community to develop Gallium3D
| into a robust and reliable multi-platform
| graphics architecture, but this investment
| should begin paying off later this year or
| within the next year. Nouveau's Gallium3D
| support is becoming reliable and working
| across the range of NVIDIA GeForce/Quadro
| graphics cards that they are targeting to
| the point that Red Hat is shipping this
| driver by default in Fedora 13. For Ubuntu
| users there is a Gallium3D Nouveau PPA too,
| but we would not be surprised if Ubuntu
| 10.10 is to pull in this driver as it
| finally provides a free software 3D NVIDIA
| driver for Linux.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gallium3d_r300g&num=1
AMD ATI fights Nvidia's grasp of 3D market with open source - Open Stereo 3D
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| At a time when Nvidia might make its GPU
| comeback - the launch of the Fermi chips,
| AMD has decided to concentrate their
| efforts in the 3D field, in an attempt to
| catch-up with the green graphics giant. It
| does this in typical Advanced Micro Devices
| style, by setting the open source
| atmosphere with what it calls Open Stereo
| 3D. Similar to its Open Physics venture
| which goes head to head with Nvidia's
| PhysX, AMD now launches its open offensive
| against the 3D Vision front.
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http://www.thinkdigit.com/General/AMD-ATI-fights-Nvidias-grasp-of-3D_4242.html
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