Mesa 10.4 Is Delayed A Few Days As It's Busted On Older GPUs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 10.4 Is Delayed A Few Days As It's Busted On Older GPUs

The release of Mesa 10.4 is being dragged out by a few days due to a regression affecting older GPUs/drivers that causes this new Mesa version to be in bad shape. Hopefully by the end of this coming week though, Mesa 10.4.0 will be christened...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg1Njk

[smitty3268]

The bug that's known about should be fixed by this patchset

Patchset Here

[GraysonPeddie]

Anyone notice a 20-pin connector placed near the I/O ports? Makes me think of using PicoPSU for that particular motherboard. And why is the battery mounted near the PCI Reversed Express slot?

[drSeehas]

... the PCI Reversed Express slot?

This is an AGP slot.

[GraysonPeddie]

This is an AGP slot.

I've known about it since the 90s, but then I do forGET about Accelerated Graphics Port...

And I've once forgotten about motherboards that have both a PCIe x16 (I'm thinking 1.0) and AGP slots... Times have gone way too quickly.

[brosis]

I use Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz on media server, and with half-year not upgraded debian testing, the built-in 915 works very well on 16:9 fullhd TV (its 845 something I think).

[Adarion]

Ah, AGP... it is not that old. Oh, folks, don't make old Grampa come up with his ISA slots. Or VLB. Or things even older.

The sad thing is that a lot of interfaces are obsoleted way too fast. There are still cards, periphery that work fine for a job and that are still in use but vendors just ignore it. I am very glad that a couple of these AM1 boards still feature serial (COM) and parallel (LPT) interfaces. I also still got so many good PCI cards around but I have little use yet for PCIe besides GPUs.
And IDE and floppy interfaces are nearly extinct, and you can't buy FDD controllers anywhere (besides some USB2FDDs). I actually had to use 3 1/2 just recently to fetch scientific data from an old box.

[drSeehas]

... ISA slots. Or VLB. Or things even older. ...

Which slot is older than an ISA slot (and IBM PC compatible)?
I know, the Apple II had slots too.

[bridgman]

Which slot is older than an ISA slot (and IBM PC compatible)?
I know, the Apple II had slots too.

This, for starters. I built a couple of these, used them to control a video special effects studio.

http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/MP_B/MP_B_Photo.jpg

http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/swtpc_6800.htm

EDIT -- missed your qualifier about IBM PC compatible, the only thing older than ISA would be the 8-bit bus slots on the original PC (ISA was a 16-bit version of that IIRC).

[drSeehas]

... the only thing older than ISA would be the 8-bit bus slots on the original PC (ISA was a 16-bit version of that IIRC).

Hm, the AT 16-bit slot was only an extension to the 8-bit slot.

My first videocard from ATI could emulate MDA, Hercules or CGA selectable by DIP switches.