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Old 01-15-2020, 01:54 PM   #1
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1080p on ancient PCI GPU wif current linux distros?


Ok let say i have a 64mb PCI GPU and its the only GPU i have for a motherboard that does not have IGP and CPU w/o IGP. Can 64mb VRAM on the PCI (not AGP or PCIex) bus via VGA allow me to display current Linux distros in 1080p resolution? Just surf net, office apps no gaming whatsoever? Actually i've seen server boards with 16mb VRAM IGP - i suppose those can't run linux in 1080p?
 
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It has nothing to do with the Linux distro (or any OS for that matter) but the hardware capability. If the hardware is limited to 1024x768, it. doesn't matter what OS is on the machine. Make sense?
 
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Old 01-15-2020, 03:12 PM   #3
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yes, would be nice to tell us what kind of card is it (to be able to tell the resolution).
 
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Old 01-15-2020, 04:47 PM   #4
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It has nothing to do with the Linux distro (or any OS for that matter) but the hardware capability. If the hardware is limited to 1024x768, it. doesn't matter what OS is on the machine. Make sense?
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yes, would be nice to tell us what kind of card is it (to be able to tell the resolution).
its a Radeon 9100 64mb ATI from 2003 me thinks
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-spec...-9100-pci.c805
 
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Well, it says it will do 4K. You will likely need to load the appropriate driver but not being an AMD (ati) user I can’t say which driver to use or how to load as I use completely different graphics hardware.
 
Old 01-15-2020, 05:17 PM   #6
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Hmm it states here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
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Supported, but hardware is too old for Unity
These cards will not run Ubuntu's Unity desktop with 3D acceleration. They will still run Unity, but the CPU will be used for basic drawing and performance may suffer. If you have one of these cards, a lighter desktop (such as XFCE or LXDE, found in Xubuntu and Lubuntu respectively) is recommended.

R200

Radeon 8500, 9100, FireGL 8800/8700
Would i be ok with Linux Mint XFCE for example with it?
 
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Boot any live session and run

Code:
xrandr

Citation : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xrandr

yourself. My experience with newer xorg and open source antique hardware since Xorg does not bow down to driver maintainers schedules.

I usually have to roll with Vesa driver to get a decent screen, Edit. Since ancient hardware is mentioned.
Forget Desktop environments distros releases. You will have to probably go with window manager based live iso sessions. Unless you have loads of time to wait for things to load.

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