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looking for old ati proprietary drivers, are they gone for good?
But this has got to be a driver issue and not a hw one since I have less powerful integrated graphics from nvidia on an older laptop and it doesn't lag only using the kernel drivers.
I don't think NVidia ever *made* anything less powerful. The GPU in there is basically an RN50 with slow clocks -- single pipe, no TCL.
I'm running the 3.3.4 kernel, and the open source xorg f86 ati driver is in the kernel itself right?
so why does it load version 2.x from 2008 ????
[drm] Initialized radeon 2.13.0 2008052
there's something really broken with mine, and I take it, all the old ati cards with the open source xorg drivers and it's pretty much the only driver we can run
but with synaptics packet manager it says I already have the xf86 ati bla bla package installed
I can't figure this out, I don't know maybe someone who has figured this out for this 2004 laptops will chime in or else I'm going to give up
Haha, back then the only differentiating thing with those igp models was 10MHz core clock Who whoulda thunk it, in the dark ages it was commercially viable to make bins separated by a rounding error.
was sort of able to figure out what went wrong with the open source driver
the old ati cards, everything from before 2005 (cannot verify this) should be using XAA acceleration and the radeon OSS drivers default to EXA acceleration
there are also more stuff you can change in xorg configuration but I will have to back some stuff up before I trying messing with X as it tends to break
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