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charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Would it be better to find a way to fix these issue rather than warn people about it? They look realatively easy to fix. For the Radeon / AMDGPU drivers to work, you need: - A patch need to be upstreamed in linux-libre for the GPU family to make the driver load. That patch needs to be tested on real hardware. - Potentially some configuration for Xorg for recent cards to account for the lack of hardware 2D acceleration. Without it we could have something like that (from Parabola): '/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so: undefined symbol: exaGetPixmapDriverPrivate' The Libreplanet wiki[1] has all the information about that. If each person with an unsupported GPU and a bit of skills (it requires to compile linux-libre) and a bit of time (it should not take that long, it'll probably be something between less than 1 hour to 1 day), or that we try to help people with these GPU doing that, we could fix it for good. I already did it for all the AMD GPUs I had access to, but despite the fact that it's really a low hanging fruit, only 1 person that needed a lot of help tried to follow these tutorials (though I didn't manage to find the time it required to help that person until the end). All the information about was added in the libreplanet wiki[1] as it is relevant to most GNU/Linux FSDG compliant distributions and the problem is not specific to a given distribution. References: ----------- [1]https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/research/gpu/radeon Denis. --Sig_/5xbPjlG__TQ8ymtpdh7DXap Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEeC+d2+Nrp/PU3kkGX138wUF34mMFAmGvnR8ACgkQX138wUF3 4mNJHxAAlPTtXS2Xzp+H7JBezN4mW7yHxtFfhHw+Inr1CtZFqWliBhbTmS0JB8Fl 7tVTphGMxXM4eQ+35TVnFoAKT6iuyDQFIbFciMGElcoFh+KtL1w8kQUgrf1XNKZ+ G3vSvghD6i00Sk6i8JjcHoe6vHHuauuVP+zJkATP2x7EYRMyVBXDnaslvSX2Nhsh xvEKbEvYH7wXaqPZB/ERNOfkbyWalX/NsrrdGRxaRjbmvUZ3o0kQ8taqpZlBjQwA konbV1zWyHtGn2TWgJMRlUcF363QCD6OLsUuBYnJrazchBWY5XBa6jD2ufLplcwn 7Rgl/qEHT9NfmcTlvLALBjLgHKiOEQNJCjbBDJxTYL5WgmEMvHY/gbAnp1Gghawt obkyOOEEQ3GgzhuBUOYwXFNKpKm+ftbAAzTUrSgBG2vJ5Ea8DGLiN8B3HsNDPh2z Pzirt+xLjuhW1I+c+xRWZG/O57Hddpa9arJGrEQNJ7R7PAFw+w04cdRozTSbnFqJ VvdsXE4ihyDZh2JqeXvdkJjuVBvWV1eC/QEIk2/Yy8wCcqYODqkrTd0p/qD8hK3N xxHLRxd1zc2oFFNzpAR7jRrV+oTx47oGeIjlMfeegEa1dTgkVpZ/he73prmXlthl fvOmgWUD2RPmhNci5NPdRV2VUuqcqhZHqkpH1Ujlm6R5B9Cn68c= =mfXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/5xbPjlG__TQ8ymtpdh7DXap--