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Fedora 21 Will Try To Abandon Non-KMS GPU Drivers
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Last edited by cb88; 27 August 2013, 09:00 PM.
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Originally posted by FLHerne View PostCan't say I like this - I was using r128 cards until earlier this year, so it seems likely that there are still users of them. i810 and Geode also seem a bit odd to me as hardware to abandon support for.
Originally posted by FLHerne View PostIs there some maintenance or performance advantage to having only KMS drivers beyond that of abandoning individual ones?
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Originally posted by LinuxGamer View Postyou don't need KMS support for Wayland you only need it for Weston
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Originally posted by mark45 View PostUpgrade your shit or use another distro. Don't be like the ignorant IE6 user who wants his crap to be supported by mainstream as long as he uses it.
If not, your opinion doesn't matter. No one has to upgrade their hardware just because you say they have to.
Also, I recall Fedora has a LXDE spin for older machines so it's not as if they're not supporting those users.
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Originally posted by mark45 View PostUpgrade your shit or use another distro. Don't be like the ignorant IE6 user who wants his crap to be supported by mainstream as long as he uses it.
Originally posted by Delgarde View PostSo it's less a case of abandoning these drivers, and more an acknowledgement that they were abandoned years ago?
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Originally posted by chithanh View PostThey are not abandoned, but their pace of development is slow. There were suggestions to integrate these drivers back into the X server like in the old monolithic days, which would maybe be the only long term way to deal with the problem.
This is the dark side of not having frozen APIs in Linux. Drivers pretty much have to have maintainers or they gradually fall behind and effectively die.
EDIT -- oh cool, I crossed 7,000 posts recently...Last edited by bridgman; 28 August 2013, 12:08 AM.Test signature
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Originally posted by cb88 View PostMakes sense to move hardware like that to using BSD... my tyan thunder 2 atx computer acutally has sound support there! And they are still supporting ancient hardware like acceleration support for SX graphics on SparcStations probably the oldest hardware capable of accelerating compositing -> http://my.opera.com/Macallan/blog/
The thing is though, why you would expect a distro geared toward modern hardware using apps that are likely far too heavy to run well on it, when you could just grab a specialized low end/old hardware distro.
Really though, unless you are dumpster diving for gear to restore and donate like I do the cost of running such old hardware is outweighed by the power savings of getting a system that draws 15w like an AMD A4-5000 board, it'll be faster at literally everything being a a quad core 64 bit CPU with an OpenGL4/OpenCL1.2 class GPU that already has OSS driver support.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostThis is the dark side of not having frozen APIs in Linux. Drivers pretty much have to have maintainers or they gradually fall behind and effectively die.
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