On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan <m...@nileshgr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Helmut Jarausch
> <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> 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

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