Ok i have unearthed a 1998/99 ATI Rage 128VR PCI GPU with 32mb VRAM somewhere dark and forgotten at home!

Now i noticed there are new developments for this card?
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...28-DRM-In-2018

Being a Linux noob i can't 100% get whats stated here
https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DRM_R128.html

so long story short :

#1 current linux OS be they ubuntu, arch or red hat based have drivers for the above card auto included? am thinking Ubuntu 20.04 or Manjaro 20

#2 if so do they allow for 1080p display (no gaming)

This doesn't look very promising. OTOH, it says the driver is there, it needs only to be configured properly .

hi thank you! configuring the card is it hard?

Yes.
Interesting.
Have you clicked through all links in that article? I don't see anything newer than June 2018. Looks like it went to sleep again.

Anyhow, any integrated intel GPU of the last decade or so has more oomph than that card.
Or you can buy an almost infinitely more powerful GPU for 10 credits or so.

Are you sure you need it?

Hi currently i am on a laptop but i would get a hand me down desktop with a PCI slot so i can't actually install and run/test the card yet

ATI made the r128 and the rv(?)7000 just before they stopped supporting linux. The Rage had a 33Mhz pci card. managed an output, but the ony reason to write home you get is how BAD it was.

You may find a piece of history it works in. I'd try selling it as an antique first

I'm not sure if this will be useful or no, but to the original question about 'will it support 1080p' I can say: I have the Apple version of that card (in a very old Apple computer) - it will support a maximum resolution of 1920x1440 over its (single) VGA output. On my card, there is also a little daughter-board attached which offloads MPEG decoding (I don't know if this is Apple-specific), and indeed when playing back a DVD on that system, if I use that card I see near 0% CPU load, whereas the AGP card that came with that machine (a newer Radeon) the CPU will show more like 10% load. This is all in OS X - I've never gotten PowerPC Linux to boot on that machine with the Rage installed (the Radeon seems to work though).

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I had the next version (R7000). It did the dpi, but acceleration was close to zero.