So maybe my old laptop from 2006 will get a kernel with MESA support for its old ATI x1600, which is based on R520. I couldn't update it past some 3.x kernel b

So maybe my old laptop from 2006 will get a kernel with MESA support for its old ATI x1600, which is based on R520. I couldn't update it past some 3.x kernel because anything newer would not draw the display or lose sync, I can't remember which one. That happened about in 2013. However the nail in the coffin was the 4GB limit on RAM and too many VMs and containers.