On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 11:21:01AM +0200, hzh wrote: > I don't know about other distributions and how far they still support older > HW cause I lack the time to try them. A second alternative might be some BSD > system, they usually also support older HW well. I just saw NetBSD running > on some ancient and somewhat exotic machine a few weeks ago on a public > Linux conference. I guess openchrome might also compile and work on BSD? I > mean, the whole userland X system is ported, right?
Yes, X runs on the BSD. But only older versions of the xf86-video-openchrome driver work AFAICT, because the drm and kms drivers have not been ported to the BSD kernels and OpenChrome stopped working as a pure user mode driver. OpenBSD is shipping with a version derived from 0.2.906 that used to work last time I checked. But I don't have access anymore to hardware suppored by the openchrone driver to check the current driver or try porting a more recent version. -- Matthieu Herrb
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