<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/15 Patrick Matthäi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmatthaei@debian.org">pmatthaei@debian.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Paul Harris schrieb:<br>
> as stated here:<br>
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> <a href="http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.9&lang=English" target="_blank">http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.9&lang=English</a><br>
> <<a href="http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.9&lang=English" target="_blank">http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.2&product=2.4.2.3.9&lang=English</a>><br>
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> the support for older cards has been moved to a legacy driver.<br>
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> can we see Debian support for the legacy driver? I think this is very<br>
> important due to the extended lifecycle of linux computers, its likely<br>
> these old graphics cards will be around for quite some time into the future.<br>
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> This seems to be the only way to get hardware accelerated 3D graphics on<br>
> linux with these cards... right?<br>
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Wrong. Legacy is only for windows.<br>
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</blockquote><div><br>Ah, which is why they state:<br>The Linux ATI Catalyst™ driver will only be supported in Linux
distributions prior to February 2009 for the legacy products listed
above.<br><br>So can we use the older drivers with newer kernels? Is it possible to create a working driver based on an old release?<br></div></div><br>