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I did that long ago with an IBM T60p, which had a 32bit Centrino, and only 3.25 or 3.5GB usable RAM out of 4GB. While the ATI FireGL had 256MB. At the time ther
by LargoLasskhyfv 4y ago
I did that long ago with an IBM T60p, which had a 32bit Centrino, and only 3.25 or 3.5GB usable RAM out of 4GB. While the ATI FireGL had 256MB. At the time there was no ZRAM, but its predecessor compcache. IIRC I only needed about 2MB VRAM for the stuff I did, any capability the FireGL had wasn't supported by MESA/XORG/DRI at the times, apart from useless GLXGEARS.
What can I say? After much fiddling it worked stable, resulting in running into the limits of that POS much later. Extending its usability. Not that much, but noticeable.
Even Google Earth ran. Probably because it did anything in software anyways, on that combo of supported and exposed capabilities of the GPU at that time.