r/slackware

Does anyone have ANY INFO about upcoming version? Since Slackware stays longer when new version comes, which kernel Is expected?

Hi.

Are there any working Radeon HD3450 drivers for Slackware? Ideally for an older version.

I know that the card works, as Windows XP manages to utilize the acceleration just fine (I used SDI to install the driver, no idea which driver it is, not that it matters.)

But on Linux, the usual 'Xorg -configure' method fails and trying to startx with the resulting xorg.conf results in X11 stating that no screens have been found.

With no xorg.conf however the desktop runs, but it's all VESA/LLVMPipe, which means it's very slow and totally unaccelerated.

Since glxinfo doesn't really exist on Windows (at least I don't think it does), my metric for checking whether a graphics card works or not is just to run Minecraft. Yeah, I suck.

On Windows XP I get ~80 fps and on the unaccelerated Linux session I get ~5 fps. On the same computer, with the same fullscreen resolution, and with OptiFine installed in both cases.

(It's probably a bad metric, but I'm an amateur, so please forgive me.)

Am I missing some proprietary driver? If so, where do I get it?

And would it work on older version of Slackware such as 12.2 and 13.37?

Thanks.

Excuse my ignorance.