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I could be wrong (I never really got into gaming as GMA950+Linux was an exceptionally bad combo for it) but I thought source was exclusively DirectX back then.

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HL2 had both OpenGL and DirectX on paper, but the DirectX implementation was notoriously poor such that everyone used and recommended the OpenGL renderer.

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1007962

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=931690

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=987307

Ironically now with Valve's push for Linux gaming, I'd expect that Linux is probably a great platform for HL2, probably even better than Windows. Intel GMA drivers might still be bad though, not sure if that is too far back for the open-source driver that showed up in the Core era.

I believe Source had both OpenGL and DirectX renderers, alongside a software renderer.

Edit: I'm thinking of the GoldSrc engine used in Half-Life

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