alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 16 hours agoValve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT [2012] Finally Working On Linuxwww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down11
arrow-up1155arrow-down1external-linkValve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT [2012] Finally Working On Linuxwww.phoronix.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 16 hours agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down1·15 hours agoThis title is not accurate. The GPUs worked on Linux already, but only with AMD’s old proprietary RADEON driver. The news is that they are now supported by the Free Software AMDGPU driver.
minus-squaremrbigmouth502@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 hours agoThe radeon driver wasn’t proprietary, just old and superseded by AMDGPU. AMD’s old proprietary driver was fglrx.
This title is not accurate. The GPUs worked on Linux already, but only with AMD’s old proprietary RADEON driver. The news is that they are now supported by the Free Software AMDGPU driver.
The radeon driver wasn’t proprietary, just old and superseded by AMDGPU. AMD’s old proprietary driver was fglrx.