AMD To Drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst Support

[Rapture]

AMD To Drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst Support

his summer, around the time of Catalyst 12.7, AMD will be dropping support for pre-Evergreen hardware from their proprietary graphics driver. This means that the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series will cease to be supported by the mainline driver. The support will live on in a legacy branch of Catalyst, but that branch for Linux users will not be updated with new X.Org Server and Linux kernel support.



At the moment I don't know for certain whether the HD 2000/3000/4000 series support will be removed from the Windows Catalyst driver too, but it looks that way and I would assume so as the ~40-million-line Catalyst driver code-base is largely shared across platforms. The last time AMD dropped hardware support from their mainline Catalyst code-base, they did it at the same time for Windows and Linux. At least Windows users have the benefit of Microsoft maintaining a stable API/ABI for Windows so that the current driver will continue working for the foreseeable future. Even with AMD's older legacy Catalyst driver, they have made new releases to support Windows updates. On Linux, this isn't so easy.

Alko, izgleda da ces morati da menjas kartu ...
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[Alk0]

Samo ako poludim pa instaliram Linux

Ali svakako sam planirao da skoknem na neku malko jacu. Bezacu za korak uvek kako se rusi podrska platforme. Ko je igrao Manic Minera na Spectrumu (ili gde vec) zna o cemu pricam

 

[Beagle]

Poranili su sa odbacivanjem 4xxx serije - te graficke su vise nego upotrebljive i danas (narocito jaci primerci). Sto se starijih tice, nije uredu zbog podrske za novije operativne sisteme. Mislim da bi bilo ok da periodicno objave drajvere za Windows 8 ili tako nesto...

 

[blackmore1911]

Byebye 4870.

Like I care, ja ionako ne updatujem drivere

 

[rhher]

Byebye 4870.

Like I care, ja ionako ne updatujem drivere

Ja sam pre sest meseci skinuo driver i samo njega furam....