Legacy hardware support in MIR

Nedas Pekorius nedaspekorius at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 18:10:16 UTC 2013


I think my question could fit in this topic also.
How about MIR and switchable graphics like Nvidia optimus?
As far as I know nouveau doesn't support discrete graphic chip.


On 18 June 2013 01:02, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at canonical.com> wrote:

> Mir uses the free drivers that X does currently and Android drivers. So if
> you card is currently supported in X (i.e. intel, ati, nouveau) then it
> will continue to work (if those drivers are continued to be maintained).
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Karl Anliot <kanliot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have to ask because I do not know:  will MIR support old abandoned
>> video cards?    So If I have an older graphics card that works well now,
>> will the MIR maintainers be supporting that graphics card into the future?
>>
>> cheers,
>> kanliot
>>
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