Sorry for any confusion, that was not my point. Just for clarification: - I thought the old catalyst/fglrx-driver is still available for the old chips even though not maintained. But it seems as if they won't compile against newer kernels. - I know that the new amdgpu driver is only for modern cards. - *But* I also know that amd is pushing the opensource drivers radeon/amdgpu and those are in an actually pretty good state. The old fglrx driver is partly even performing worse than the opensource equivalent. So I wouldn't call this "dropping support". Btw, the RV620/630 (aka HD2600) should be supported too. I always buy amd cards as I never had any major compliant with the drivers. I cannot say this with nvidia or intel. So btt: As newer Mesa/XOrg should also support HDMI-audio, I would simply try it out, if I had an HD6310/6320. Chances are high that everything works perfectly out out of the box. Simon Am 29.07.2017 um 10:31 schrieb David C. Rankin:
On 07/28/2017 12:50 PM, Simon Heimbach wrote:
Hm. You're right. I thought the old chips are still supported, but I was wrong.
That's why I will never buy an ATI video card again (or laptop with an ATI card). They just "drop" all support for older products, users be damned. What was new a couple of years ago to ATI is suddenly "Legacy" and "Unsupported". Been though several iterations of this -- the first in Aug. 09 when all fglrx support for everything less that the 2600 series cards was just dropped. Poof - Sorry you bought that expensive laptop a few years ago, but...
Every nvidia card is still supported.
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