What Do You Want From Linux GPU Drivers In 2010?

[birdie]

Four simple things (in order of priority):

Open specs for nvidia cards (and REALLY working nouveau)
Power management

Just this and nothing else.

[BlueJayofEvil]

Open-source Radeon drivers:
(in order of highest to lowest priority)

-3D support (with shaders)
-Video acceleration
-Power management
-Multi-GPU support
-OpenCL

[.CME.]

to fix the r128 mess / apply that damn patches from the bugtracker:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9379 (not complete, but makes DRI somehow useable on rage128)
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11973
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4587 (--> http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/...1=1.31&r2=1.32 (works fantastic, but patching and recompiling r128 and mesa everytime on a P3 just sucks...))
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23996
...

[Xavier]

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

[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.

[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.

[patstew]

Direct3D


I can dream can't I?

[yotambien]

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

[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.

[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.