Fri, 20 May 2016 02:06:22 -0500 Michael Brinkman <thygreatswagged...@gmail.com> > That makes sense. So is there a list of which cards are supported? > > The Radeon manpage doesn't seem to be very clear on this and just > lists support of cards by codename. I don't want to downgrade hugely > if this is going to be supported in the future. I'm not in for anything too > hungry or anything, just wanting compositing and accelerated video. > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:55 AM, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote: > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 01:40:01AM -0500, Michael Brinkman wrote: > >> Hello, I'm using an AMD R7 370 GPU and 2D and 3D acceleration isn't > >> working. > >> > >> I did some research on this and it seems that the version of mesa used > >> isn't > >> compiled with EGL support. Is there any timetable on when this will be > >> implemented or if it will? Also correct me if I'm wrong on the reasoning. > >> > >> I'm using 5.9 Generic.mp if that's important. > > > > The radeonsi driver in Mesa requires LLVM. As LLVM is not part of src > > or xenocara trees we can't enable it currently. > > > > The more recent models lack kernel support in radeondrm.
I have a Radeon HD-5450 working just fine in a combined desktop on 2 displays 27" 2560x1440 (DVI-D dual link) + 17" 1280x1024 (VGA) in a 2005 motherboard with a crappy nf4 chipset, still working to this day. You can find new HD-5450/6450, working 2D 3D with minimum power usage.
