F12: 30 second freeze when accessing certain panel items ?

[Kevin Kofler]

Laurent Rineau wrote:
> Nevertheless, as far as I know, NVidia cards under Linux is the only
> available option for my needs at work: I need a crunching 3D OpenGL that
> can eat lots of triangles. When I had a look last time (January 2009),
> NVidia proprietary drivers seemed to be the best option, on the
> performances side. ATI drivers were not supporting recent 3D cards, and
> Intel 3D performances were a joke.

Fedora 12 now ships with a mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package which 
provides 3D support for the Radeon HD cards (r6xx and newer). Chances are 
they will no longer be experimental by Fedora 13.

> As far as openness matters, Intel seems to be the best open source
> support, but AFAIK the Intel developers are not giving specs of Intel
> cards: they only gives open source drivers, and third-part developers have
> difficulties to fix bugs in Intel drivers. That is not that good.

Intel actually did release some specs:
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html

        Kevin Kofler