What Do You Want From Linux GPU Drivers In 2010?

[BlackStar]

Direct3D


I can dream can't I?

That would be awesome, actually.

[?John?]

The way it's meant to be supported

That they improve to the point where a thread like this would have no sense. This is, parity with Windows.

Good point, except it isn't really "parity with Windows" but rather just "the way any hardware must be supported if it's manufacturer values his customers", simply because if you get screwed, you're not likely to be coming back for more. As far as I'm concerned, that's just the way it is

[lem79]

Working Suspend resume on NVIDIA binary.

Suspend to RAM and to disk (hibernate) has been working for me in Ubuntu and the nVidia binary drivers since Ubuntu 7.04. It still works today (Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 nVidia GTX260, driver version 195.30), no issues at all.

[Zhick]

1. >=OpenGL2 for my r500 card (so I can finally drop fglrx)
2. PowerManagement
3. decent OSS r800 support so I can consider a ATi card for my next pc/notebook.

[dfx.]

personally, i need more of R500 love:

on windoze i'm able to play Half-Life 2 in 1280x800@high without AA and filtering with my "Mobility Radeon X2300" but on my Gentoo system it is only recently i was able to run... Jets'n'Guns.
glxinfo says:

OpenGL vendor string: DRI R300 Project
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 (RV515 718A) 20090101 TCL DRI2
OpenGL version string: 1.5 Mesa 7.8-devel

and, of course, i waiting for Nouveau heaven with full OpengGL 2.1 and accelerations.

[yotambien]

That they improve to the point where a thread like this would have no sense. This is, parity with Windows.

[patstew]

Direct3D


I can dream can't I?

[ad_267]

I'd like to see Kernel Mode Setting for the proprietary Nvidia driver.

Ideally I'd like Nvidia to switch to supporting Nouveau on Linux, but that's not likely.

[Dead1nside]

I'd love switchable graphics support so I can at runtime shift from my Intel integrated to my ATI discrete graphics chip.

Better 3D performance and accuracy in Intel's drivers, been running into some issues there.

[Xavier]

Fully working OSS driver (KMS, 3D, GPGPU) for *actual* cards (5xxx)