David C. Rankin composed on 2018-05-08 03:19 (UTC-0500):
John Andersen wrote: ...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-opensource-10&num=1 Suse was instrumental in getting them started on this approach.
You are hard pressed to find any model of ATI/AMD card that has been totally abandoned.
That's only partially true. There are no fglrx drivers at all anymore for anything before the 2000.x version cards. All the x1800, x1650, x1600 or earlier cards (x800 - some very expensive cards of the time) are simply not provide. (e.g. there is no driver for my older toshiba laptop with the x1250 card)
VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270]
This isn't just a Linux thing either -- they are not provided for windoze either.
If I crank up the drive with openSuSE 11.0 - the graphics are perfect with the ATI fglrx driver :) Compiz flies and the cube or sphere spins off the screen (figuratively) But that was the last distro that had a fglrx driver.
I'll double-check, nothing would make me happier to find an accelerated driver. I just installed Leap 42.3 on that laptop. As in my original post -- it's find for my use, but I would sure like to find a fglrx driver that would work :)
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