Re: OpenGL with ATI Radeon on Mac hardware - different failures

Mathias Parnaudeau <[email protected]> Thu, 21 May 2026 20:42:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 21/05/2026 à 08:44, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit :
> Hi Mathias,
>
> On Wed, 2026-05-20 at 17:44 +0200, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote:
>> The GPU is the same than on the venerable MacMini on which I tested an installation
>> years ago (Debian snapshot 2022-03-28 that had MESA 22.0.2). I remember I had no more
>> hardware acceleration and the support of this generation of GPUs was dropped. Looking
>> at the MESA release notes, we can find at https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/22.0.0.html that:
>>
>> - classic/r100: Delete driver
>>   - classic/r200: Delete driver
> At least the r200 driver is part of Mesa's Amber branch, it's not gone therefore:
>
> https://docs.mesa3d.org/amber.html

Excellent! Thank you, Adrian, I was not aware this branch!

Now, the question is how to make it easy to get and install for users. I 
will follow the coming discussions:-)

Mathias