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Originally posted by drSeehas View PostAnd these cards were only 3 years old when the drivers were removed from the tree?
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Originally posted by drSeehas View PostAnd these cards were only 3 years old when the drivers were removed from the tree?
The important point is that you can still pop one of these cards into a machine today and get not only a desktop, but accelerated support for whatever GL versions those cards supported (which was usually just GL 1.3/1.4).
In fact, I did that not too long ago. I've got a Voodoo 3 PCI card that I installed into an Athlon x2 machine because I needed something to drive a display. I got a running desktop, glxinfo showed accelerated support, and I got on with my day.
Open-Source graphics drivers generally have much longer lived support than what a manufacturer provides itself. And given the quality of the R600/RadeonSI gallium drivers, I don't really care if AMD provides support in the AMDGPU-PRO binary driver for more than a few years. I haven't installed AMDGPU-PRO yet, and I haven't had Catalyst/fglrx installed since 2008 anyway. I've been using Mesa the entire time, and I've been enjoying the stability, fast desktop, and the rate of improvement.
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Originally posted by drSeehas View PostWhen did open source drivers ever drop support for GPUs older than 3 years?
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Originally posted by jrch2k8 View Posti'm not sure but maybe closer to 15 years than 3 years, some of those cards were so old that originally only supported GLIDE not OpenGL 1.4, even back then were museum cards, in the case of radeons maybe closer to 8 or 10 years (those were 2001 cards with UBER AMAZING 64mb DDR vram)
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Originally posted by dh04000 View PostCa't find my edit button, Example of support being dropped. Bought a brand new laptop in 2006 with an Ati x1400 and lost support by 2009.
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