FreeBSD 15 Might Drop Its AGP Driver For Old Graphics Cards

[phoronix]

Phoronix: FreeBSD 15 Might Drop Its AGP Driver For Old Graphics Cards

Ah the memories of old AGP graphics cards... But it's largely just that these days: distant memories. For anyone by chance still running an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) graphics card in production, FreeBSD is looking at deprecating its generic AGP driver and then potentially removing it in FreeBSD 15.0...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Might-Drop-AGP

[ezst036]

This makes sense.

I am all for longer support than what the corporate providers offer, but there is the reality that users move on.

[kpedersen]

This makes sense.

I am all for longer support than what the corporate providers offer, but there is the reality that users move on.

I have my nifty GeForce 4600 ti AGP card. I probably would still be using it if:

• NVIDIAs concept of "maintenance mode" wasn't defective.
• I still had a machine with an AGP slot

Its still vastly overpowered for games based on Quake III, Half-Life and still pretty decent for Doom 3.

[sophisticles]

These people really know how to screw up my plans.

Just this morning i woke up and said to myself, I think i will build a system with 256mb ram, an Athlon 1800+ and a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP, a Sound Blaster Audigy, hook that up to an old CRT monitor and install FBSD 15 on it when it is released.

So much for that!

Thanks a lot people!

[sophisticles]

Side note, Michael I like what you did with this article, the integration with X.

I think it's a good idea.

[waxhead]

Side note, Michael I like what you did with this article, the integration with X.

I think it's a good idea.

I personally hate it. Phoronix is one of the few havens on the internet that is pure to itself and is/was not infected with twitter/Facebook/discord etc.... Please consider letting it be that way.

[schmidtbag]

Seems like a good idea to me. With limited developers, the BSDs in general need to focus on what they can actively maintain.

I personally hate it. Phoronix is one of the few havens on the internet that is pure to itself and is/was not infected with twitter/Facebook/discord etc.... Please consider letting it be that way.

I hardly see the harm in posting a poll on an article, both of which are created by Michael. It doesn't detract from anything. It's not like he's shoving trendy shit down our throats, asking us to follow/subscribe him on every other platform, and/or constantly using these platforms for lazy journalism.

[jabl]

Note this is about the agpgart driver. I recall from previous discussion about the Linux agpgart driver (there was talk of removing it since it was an ugly hack, not sure what happened) that without the agpgart driver an AGP graphics card would still work, it just wouldn't be able to use the GART. Which given the capabilities of the AGP GART's on the chipsets that did have such, might not be such a loss.

[torsionbar28]

AGP. Yuck. The poster child of that era where garbage quality Chinese capacitors would leak and burst on everything from motherboards to televisions. Mountains of e-waste created by billions of poor quality China-made capacitors. Not much from ~1999 - 2005 survived more than a few years. Yay globalism?

[User29]

AGP. Yuck. The poster child of that era where garbage quality Chinese capacitors would leak and burst on everything from motherboards to televisions. Mountains of e-waste created by billions of poor quality China-made capacitors. Not much from ~1999 - 2005 survived more than a few years. Yay globalism?

globalism?

the same shitty quality components could've been shipped by any local manufacturer, if they'd offered a better price than the chinese.

why'd you think different?