Looking at supported OS's, try Suse... Perhaps the Tumbleweed rolling release version? Or maybe the Leap regular release if hte package is designed for older libraries? I dunno i'd try tumbleweed first?
This says openSuse 11.4 or later: it'll have newer drivers than centOS http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/375845a.pdf On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 4:27 PM Michael Christopher Robinson < mich...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > I want to run CentOS 7 as the host system, but there doesn't seem to be > a good driver for the Radeon video card. The install, no artifacting. > When it actually boots to gnome though, terrible artifacting. > > I could just run Windows 7 instead of Linux, but I prefer Linux ;-) > > I'm trying to use this older laptop as a sandbox for Labview which runs > on CentOS 7 directly. I remember having Linux on this old laptop, but > I had to use Catalyst or something like that for Linux. Tried to find > an AMD driver for the video card, got something meant for CentOS 7.2 > which is dated. I think this laptop has an AMD AM3+ socket, so I > should be able to replace the Athlon II dual core with an Athlon II > quad core. Although, this laptop runs pretty hot as it is... > > Any help figuring out how to get the artifacting addressed will be very > much appreciated ;-) > > -- Michael C. Robinson > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
