Re: [Trisquel-users] Making the radeon kernel module work again

[onpon4]

> Calinou has been stating irc channel, to new users with radeon drivers who  
have been suggested this kernel, they will still not get 3d acceleration

And this is entirely true. This is about being able to use the Radeon driver  
at all, which was ruined due to Radeon dropping UMS support at some point,  
causing deblobbed Linux to have to fall back to things like VESA (generic  
display drivers that only support 1024x768 resolution). It is not possible to  
use any Radeon GPU with 3-D unless you have the proprietary firmware blob for  
it. This is a fact. Actually, I don't think any form of hardware acceleration  
is possible with any of them, but I'm not entirely sure about that.