Intel Driver Update Improves Old Hardware Support

[crazycheese]

Huh ?

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...er/055047.html

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

R100 (radeon 64 DDR) with opensource driver is broken.

Intel still updates its P4 IGP.

I have both and use P4 with i845 for tiny media server/desktop internet mini-PC.

If you want, I can retest the hardware and push the bug. I even have old rage128 somewhere!


THANK YOU INTEL!

[Pallidus]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eettttttttt


thx chris wilson


now


how do I install it?

can I even install it or do I have to wait for kernel 3.8 ????

(never installed a driver in linux)

[Hamish Wilson]

He seems to talking about AMD's catalyst driver, not the OSS driver. They do tend to be too quick to label cards "Legacy" with catalyst.

Yeah, but the article was about the also free Intel driver. Continuing support for older cards is pretty much excellent with radeon, and it is nice to see that things seem to be good with Intel.

[bwat47]

Huh ?

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archive...er/055047.html

He seems to talking about AMD's catalyst driver, not the OSS driver. They do tend to be too quick to label cards "Legacy" with catalyst.

[Kivada]

And AMD totally forgot their product which was selling still one year ago. F**k you AMD.

http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

[Hamish Wilson]

And AMD totally forgot their product which was selling still one year ago. F**k you AMD.

My ancient Radeon 7500/9200 cards that I still use in certain machines received new updates with the radeon driver less than a year ago...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAyMzU

Still, nice to see that I can still sometimes see updates for the graphics chip in my brothers Lenovo.

[jhansonxi]

I have two laptops with 855GME chipsets so it's nice to seem some work on the drivers for old hardware.

[GreatEmerald]

Ooh, nice, we happen to have a laptop with a Cantiga GPU. One more thing to look forward to.

[bridgman]

And AMD totally forgot their product which was selling still one year ago. F**k you AMD.

Huh ?

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2012-November/055047.html

[Tiger_Coder]

And AMD totally forgot their product which was selling still one year ago. F**k you AMD.