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2008-10-29 , 00:27
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Originally Posted by cyrus View Post
Are you saying that we don't have access to the 3d drivers cause they are closed sourced by Nokia, or that the video card in the n810 doesn't support OpenGL?
Possibly.... both, the problem is not closed-sorce drivers, it's the lack of drivers. the current tablets use the OMAP2 prosesor, and unfortunately, there are no "safe" GPU drivers available for us to use. And that reason is mainly because even though Nokia may have drivers available, theas drivers are verry unstable and therefore Nokia feels that the drivers shuld remain closed.

However, acording to Nokia, when the new maemo 5 SDK (OS2009) release comes out thay will be implimenting 3D excelleration, witch is possibly going to be powered by OpenGL 2.0. However, unfortunately we might not be able to use this feature because Nokia's "next gen" tablet will be using a OMAP3 and unfortunately current N8xx devices will be no longer supported by Nokia because of this.


More information about Maemo 5 can be found here.
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