AMD GPUs are famous for working very well on Linux. However, what about the very first GCN GPUs? Are they working as well as the new ones? In this post, I’m going to summarize how well these old GPUs are supported and what I’ve been doing to improve them.
Otoh, the old Windows driver still works perfectly fine on modern Windows while there just never was a Linux driver for my obscure Elan touchpad, so I can’t even source an old driver.
Recently I revived an old x86 netbook to see what I can still do with it when I put Linux on it and was negatively surprised how dead the 32-bit Linux experience is. Most distros are dropping 32bit now, with only some purpose-made old-device distros like Antix still supporting it, but also most apps have dropped 32bit years ago.
And while 32bit is old, it’s not exactly obscure.