On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Helmut Jarausch > <[email protected]> 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
