On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 02:44:33AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > > Am I understanding that using a newer, say Radeon HD 7750 or HD 7870 > > card, with the modesetting(4) Xorg driver would work as long as there is > > kernel support (which there is)? That would obviously not allow for > > 2d/3d acceleration. > > For cape verde, pitcairn and tahiti based designs with pci ids recognised > by the kernel, yes. The marketing names don't encode the generation > of the hardware and radeon product lines often reuse older generation > designs rebadged.
Thank you for the clarification. I will have to try out one of those cards. Bryan
