What a great coincidence... my fathers PC runs on a Rage 128 and he's still using WinXP. I was up to upgrade that machine to Xubuntu anyway - so that old driver comes just in time.
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Originally posted by DanL View PostThen what the fsck are you doing on this site? Trolling?
The Rage chips lived a fairly long life as server products, so modesetting support for them is something people actually use. In addition, the dev is probably learning a good bit from the experience and may use that knowledge in a future project. Of course, I'm sure he'll seek your approval for the next project he works on...
That's why I love GNU/Linux!
The tired old mantra upgrade upgrade upgrade because the new stuff is faster and more betterer is for Windows Weenies (MS did well to make people buy new nard), and thank fsck it's disappearing finally. EVERYONE I talk to alway talks about the hassle of upgrading (then they do the same with their phones anyway, they have the upgraders itch!), despite never actually having channed their usage in ten years ie internet for email, youtube, resume etc.
I'm still enjoying my P3 1000MHz (IBM NetVista, damn I miss the IBM's) CPU for my firewall. Well, when I get my fibre connection installed in October *whistling dixie for 5 months*Hi
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Originally posted by sireangelus View Postthis is why i hate Linux.. can't this sireangelus find something more useful to do with his time, instead of ranting in some random forums?
(Beyond the obvious that many people, including myself, still have Rage based laptops and servers)...
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Originally posted by stiiixy View PostI'm still enjoying my P3 1000MHz (IBM NetVista, damn I miss the IBM's) CPU for my firewall. Well, when I get my fibre connection installed in October *whistling dixie for 5 months*
You can't easily swap it for a modern low-power CPU, simply because they use completely different architectures (Intel Atom or even some ARM), you would need to replace the whole machine.
The Rage driver makes exactly the same sense.
There are lots of people stuck with old server motherboard, where kernel upgrade DO make sens (security fixes, faster/better filesystems, etc.), but where hardware upgrades aren't easy (the Rage chip is soldered on the mobo. No way to replace it with something better supported), and where the limited capabilities aren't problematic (it's a server. modesetting is all you need. it doesn't matter that it's still old-school fixed pipeline GPU [no way to work with shader-oriented Galium], nobody is going to play the latest games on this hardware).
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