On Feb 12, 2013 6:26 AM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" <m...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan <m...@nileshgr.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Helmut Jarausch > > <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > >> On 02/12/2013 12:56:31 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >>> > >>> I just saw the specifications of GA-78LMT-USB3. It has integrated ATI > >>> Radeon HD 3000 and search results reveal that it works in Ubuntu (so > >>> it should in Gentoo as well). > >>> Thanks a lot man. > >>> > >> > >> But keep in mind that the Radeon HD 3000 is a bit old and not supported > >> by the recent ati-drivers. The lastest version working with that old > >> graphics chip is 12.6_beta_pre897 which does work with xorg-server > >> up to 1.12.x and the recent kernels (3.8) with some patches. > >> > >> But there is no promise that xorg-server 1.13.x or future kernels > >> will be supported. > >> > >> I haven't tried recently but e.g. googleearth didn't play well > >> with any other drivers in the past (at least). > >> > >> Helmut. > >> > >> > > > > That would hurt. By not supported you mean there are no bugfixes or it is buggy? > > > > -- > > Nilesh Govindrajan > > http://nileshgr.com > > It seems AMD recently released a driver for those cards > http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/legacy/Pages/legacy-radeon_linux.aspx > 21 Jan 2013 is fairly recent. > > -- > Nilesh Govindrajan > http://nileshgr.com >
The in-kernel Radeon drivers should work great with that card as well, assuming you don't need accelerated 3d. -- Alecks from Gmail on android
