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Ubuntu 17.04 Drops DRM Support For Old VIA, SiS, R128 GPUs
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They were considered for dropping several years ago already, however the modesetting driver wasn't good enough yet. No one expected people to game on those and most DE still could go without 3D compositing, these drivers still provided EXA acceleration and didn't take up much room, thus they were kept. Now that a real push is being made towards rootless X and the modesetting driver is working well, they're more of a hindrance than anything.
Note that machines sporting these chips should still work well with light DE such as LXDE, MATE (without Compiz) or Xfce with compositing disabled should be fair. Forget about Unity, Gnome or KDE though.
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Originally posted by devius View Post
Or give it to me. I'm accepting donations of old hardware
You're most likely being facetious, but come on now. This old crap has to die.
I'm not a premium member but I think I would appreciate a test of old crap like this against the newest generation of the cheapest intel/amd/raspberry has to offer and then compare performance per watt, and the cost savings involved. I'm guessing it's actually cheaper to buy new stuff when you factor in electricity costs.
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Originally posted by mitch074 View PostThey were considered for dropping several years ago already, however the modesetting driver wasn't good enough yet. No one expected people to game on those and most DE still could go without 3D compositing, these drivers still provided EXA acceleration and didn't take up much room, thus they were kept. Now that a real push is being made towards rootless X and the modesetting driver is working well, they're more of a hindrance than anything.
Note that machines sporting these chips should still work well with light DE such as LXDE, MATE (without Compiz) or Xfce with compositing disabled should be fair. Forget about Unity, Gnome or KDE though.
Though machines that old are probably acting as routers/firewalls anyway.
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Well, even in countries were computer hardware is much more expensive than the US, at last here in Brazil, you can buy 5/7 years old hardware that is still maintained in modern distros for dirt cheap. Heck, you can even get it for free when people you know dump old machines. I can only imagine that people filing bug reports for the missing drivers are hobbyists that find cool run old machines. Or people stuck on forgotten parts of the world were even internet is a hard thing to get.
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