[SOLVED] ATI Radeon HD 2770 - open source driver OK?
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I had the HD4550 on an old desktop. I worked great under the open source radeon driver. Until it stopped working entirely (hardware failure). I mostly had it to have HDMI out on an older machine.
Distribution: Fedora 36; Homebrew desktop with Ryzen 5600G and 32Gb. Using Red Hat since 1998
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please report back on how it goes/went! others will benefit!
I am happy to report it all went without many hitches and the graphics are excellent. I can play my videos, DVDs and whatever.
It turns out the shop made a typo in their list of features - the GPU is a Radeon HD 6770, not 2770. Whatever, it is working fine out of the box and I have not installed any proprietary drivers.
Please mark your thread solved. To anyone else wondering, I know Debian and Ubuntu have a separate package called 'mesa-vdpau-drivers' needed for video decode accel. It might be installed by default nowadays. I think Fedora has a similar package, but don't quote me on that.
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