Le Jeu 4 avril 2013 00:03, Adam Williamson a écrit : > On 03/04/13 02:50 PM, Felix Kaechele wrote: >> Adam Williamson wrote: >>> And please do realize your graphics adapter is well over a decade old. >>> ATI stopped posting official Windows drivers for it in 2002: >>> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/legacy-xp.aspx . >> >> Quoting from Wikipedia: "It was also seen on Intel motherboards, as >> recently as 2004, and was still used in 2006 for server motherboards." >> >> Well, yeah, old. But not ancient ;) > > I read that too, but 'seen as recently as 2006' still counts as ancient > in my book. Especially 'for server motherboards', where kind of the > whole point is no-one gives a crap about whether the graphics work, > since they likely won't be plugged in 99.99% of the time... Actually, one of the reason the Rage XL was used by almost every server motherboard for half a decade or more, is that is was very well supported in all OSes (Windows, Linux, Enterprise, consumer, recent, old…), and didn't require the latest gamer os or an out-of-tree driver to work. From a manufacturer POW it was a no-user-returns component. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
