AMD's 22-year-old GPUs are still getting driver updates — ATI's R300 - R500 from the early 2000s live on in Linux driver patches thanks to the open-source community
AMD's 22-year-old GPUs are still getting driver updates — ATI's R300 - R500 from the early 2000s live on in Linux driver patches thanks to the open-source community
If you still have a GPU like the ATI Radeon 9700 PRO, you can still use it on modern Linux operating systems.
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The GPU featured an AGP interface (an ancient competitor to PCIe)
AAAHHH!! Right in my lower back! mumble, mumble get off my lawn.
54 0 ReplyTell us, grandpa, what was dial-up like?
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That doesn't seem accurate. AGP was an improvement on PCI, and PCIe was the successor to both.
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I actually have one of these in an ancient box used for data recovery from old drives.
6 0 ReplyAnd yet my r9 380 has no signal through dvi
3 0 ReplyNot for long, though, at least for the current development branch (or did they already drop it?)
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