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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by pjmlp on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:48AM (#24018267)
Here, my card on the travel netbook that I use,

https://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-AMD/Radeon_HD_6320_IGP.html

The open source driver is kind of ok if the only thing we expect from it is getting a working X session.

Now if one wants to do some complex OpenGL stuff, then it might work, or not.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by pezezin on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:15AM (#24018992)
That card is super old, before GCN. Have you tried with something a little bit more recent?

I used to have a HD 7950 and it always worked perfectly, same with my current Vega 56.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by pjmlp on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:47AM (#24019158)
Sure, how do I replace the card on an otherwise perfectly working laptop?

The usual linux answer to hardware problems, keeps being to buy new hardware.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by pezezin on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:22PM (#24025497)
I would say that's a much more prevalent attitude in the Windows and Mac worlds. Linux tries to keep compatibility with really old software. It was only 4 years ago that major distros started to require at least a 686, aka Pentium Pro, released in November 1995!

But at some point you have to consider if it's really worth it keeping a 10 year old laptop around. It's painful to say them goodbye, I know, I have been there, but for me it's just not worth it.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by pjmlp on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:15AM (#24027209)
Asus sold the laptop with Windows 7 support as well, the drivers kept being updated up to Windows 8.1, and thanks to Windows driver ABI, those drivers work perfectly fine in Windows 10.

No need to throw a perfectly working laptop to enjoy the DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.1 capabilities that it was sold for.

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