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Linux Support Fades For 3Dfx Voodoo, Rage 128, VIA

Posted by timothy on from the this-way-to-the-ice-floe-folks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The developers behind the Mesa 3D graphics library, which provides the default graphics driver support for most hardware on Linux (and BSD/Solaris), has ended their support for older hardware. Being removed from Mesa (and therefore versions of Linux distributions) is support for hardware like the 3Dfx Voodoo, Intel i810, ATI Rage, and S3 Savage graphics processors. Also drivers being dropped were for Matrox and VIA graphics. Mesa developers also decided it's time to end support for the BeOS operating system. Dropping this code lowered the developers' responsibility by some 100k L.O.C., so maybe we will see GL3 support and OpenCL in Linux a bit sooner."

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  1. Only 3D by Randle_Revar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Xorg support for these cards isn't going away anytime soon though.

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  2. Re:A fork for old machines by Aspen · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not sure that makes sense...from the article: "Code that was mostly unmaintained and didn't receive new feature support work in years." The volunteers already quit working on it years ago: this is just being honest about it.

    Want to keep using the hardware? Just keep using the 7.11 release.