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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by account42 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:35AM (#26075158)
Well your hardware is from a time when AMD was still primarily pursuing the binary fglrx driver - if your card had an open source driver back then it would still work. What got dropped is the proprietary driver, not functionality from the open source driver. And with r600g being open source, people (mainly Red Hat's Dave Airlie) have been adding to it - in particular, there is OpenGL 4 support for some cards now, just not for all yet.

Just because you are unhappy that your card was too old to be included in the current open source driver does not mean you have to spread FUD about it.

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Re:Making Sense of the Audio Stack on Unix by pjmlp on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:40AM (#26075560)
It is not FUD, rather the proof that having open source drivers don't translate to support.

If anything, it helped my decision to focus on Apple, Microsoft and Google platforms, and let go of "Year of Linux Desktop" mantra.

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