06-08-2024, 05:40 PM
Inxi -G output:
I don't know if I would call it a critical issue or not, but in the context of DSL and making use of older hardware it seems worth mentioning: graphics acceleration for all ATI (now AMD) graphics hardware from the R100 and R200 families is not supported by Mesa 22.x.x which is what is provided by default with the current release candidate of DSL 2024 (AntiX-21?). And that also may be true for Nouveau (NV04-NV20)
In the output from 'inxi -G' (top of the post), this information makes it clear what's going on:
Basically the radeon driver is loaded (as opposed to fbdev, modesetting, or vesa), but the DRI part is swrast (software raster?)
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon#Prerequisites
[6] Mesa 22.0 and higher have dropped support for R100 and R200
This applies to all off the Radeon 7xxx, 8xxx, 9xxx graphics cards/chipsets.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon#Adva...figuration
The "fix" on Gentoo, if desired, is installing mesa-amber and to disable llvm stuff as long as you
don't need it for any other graphics card.
Per Mesa 3D docs (amber):
"After Mesa 21.3, all non-Gallium DRI drivers were removed from the Mesa source-tree. These drivers are still being maintained to some degree, but only on the amber branch, and only for critical fixes.
These drivers include:
I'm not sure what can be done about this, since it's a not entirely unexpected outcome of "progress".
But I imagine it could affect some subset of people that might be interested in DSL. That could well be much than I would think since this cover a lot of common graphics cards in the early to mid 2000s.
E.g. NV04-NV20 consists pretty much all NVidia graphics up through the GeForce 4 family.
Code:
$ inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD RV250/M9 GL [Mobility FireGL 9000/Radeon 9000] driver: radeon
v: kernel
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: swrast gpu: radeon
resolution: 1024x768~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.4,1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,swrast
platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: x.org mesa v: 22.3.6 renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM
15.0.6 128 bits)I don't know if I would call it a critical issue or not, but in the context of DSL and making use of older hardware it seems worth mentioning: graphics acceleration for all ATI (now AMD) graphics hardware from the R100 and R200 families is not supported by Mesa 22.x.x which is what is provided by default with the current release candidate of DSL 2024 (AntiX-21?). And that also may be true for Nouveau (NV04-NV20)
In the output from 'inxi -G' (top of the post), this information makes it clear what's going on:
Code:
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 driver: X: loaded: radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: swrast gpu: radeon
resolution: 1024x768~60HzBasically the radeon driver is loaded (as opposed to fbdev, modesetting, or vesa), but the DRI part is swrast (software raster?)
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon#Prerequisites
[6] Mesa 22.0 and higher have dropped support for R100 and R200
This applies to all off the Radeon 7xxx, 8xxx, 9xxx graphics cards/chipsets.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon#Adva...figuration
The "fix" on Gentoo, if desired, is installing mesa-amber and to disable llvm stuff as long as you
don't need it for any other graphics card.
Per Mesa 3D docs (amber):
"After Mesa 21.3, all non-Gallium DRI drivers were removed from the Mesa source-tree. These drivers are still being maintained to some degree, but only on the amber branch, and only for critical fixes.
These drivers include:
- Radeon
- r200
- i915
- i965
- Nouveau (the DRI driver for NV04-NV20)
I'm not sure what can be done about this, since it's a not entirely unexpected outcome of "progress".
But I imagine it could affect some subset of people that might be interested in DSL. That could well be much than I would think since this cover a lot of common graphics cards in the early to mid 2000s.
E.g. NV04-NV20 consists pretty much all NVidia graphics up through the GeForce 4 family.
upport" page that Firefox is not using any hardware acceleration.