@phoronix I'm still mad that #Intel refuses to fix the #GMA500 & #GMA3**0 drivers.

• Yes I know it's a #PowerVR SGX and no IDGAF about any excuses: They stickered their name on top of it = they're to be blamed!

Same with the #XMM7360...

@Ninji could be worse...

#GMA500 is a mess...

@topher if you like #SGI #IRIX, then maybe @bunsenlabs / #BunsenLabs woth it's #OpenBox desktop is right up your alley?

• It's a #Debian-based distro and it barely sips resources to the point that even a #Poulsbo (#AtomZ520 + #GMA500)-based #Netbook (in my case a Vaio #P11Z) can run it fluidly as software renderer (#llvmpipe)...

@EpicPawt I can recommend to take a look at #TinyCore and #BunsenLabs if you like some #smol #desktop #distro...

TinyCore is a #BusyBox / #Linux and @bunsenlabs is a nifty #Debian derivate which runs even on a #GMA500 / #Poulsbo / #IntelAtom Z-series system like the #VaioP11Z just fine despite using #llvmpipe for rendering...

@krutonium @darth +1

Until they do that, I #WontBuy any new device from them.

• #EoL is not a valid reason to let them off the hook for anything!

And yes, I'm still #mad at #Intel for the #GMA500 fuckup and at #Fibocom, #Lenovo and #Intel for the #XMM7360 / #850GL shitshow and at #nvidia for their bs...

• I don't forgive nor forget; at least not towards #corporations who didn't even try to say sorry in the most #PR-speak - esque fashion...

@SweetAIBelle thanks!

That's exactly what I was looking for - tho I've to also find the #WindowsXP drivers since #WindowsVista really feels garbage on these machines...

• Sadly the #PPA for the #Pulsbo / #GMA500 driver on #UbuntuLTS 12.04 went down and I've yet to source that #binaryblob and Kernel Module loader & build script as this provided #OpenGL ES hardware acceleration, and neither #Intel nor #PowerVR / #ImaginationTechnologies were willing to release it, despite it existing (there even was a #DellMini with #Ubuntu 8.04 sold with it!)...

Either way, I think that both the #EeePC701 and #Vaio #P11Z would greatly benefit from being rereleased with a new, #IntelAtom / #CeleronJ / #N100-based Mainboard and other updated components that make then quieter, more power saving and way faster...

• Some Chinese #HardwareHackers going by the group alias #NB51 did make their own custom #Mainboard for the #ThinkPad #X230 but those were super rare and expensive if even available...

If I had the money I would've likely completed the #NUCbook and just go with a chonky machine...
https://github.com/kbtechnologies/NUCbook

@apalu @phoronix What I mean is that #Xorg is #EoL'd and that all the #legacy stuff works in #Xwayland and using #Wayland for newer solutions is the way to go.

Also #Linux did already drop a lot of #Hardware #support over the years because it was either #unmaintained [a lot of older stuff], #never publicly available [#Intel #GMA500 & #GMA3000-Series...] or was deemed to cumbersome to continue forward [vanilla #i386 support for example]...

As much as I wished we could perpetually make stuff that just runs on an #i8086, that just won't work and just like #UnrealEngine5 won't support #32bit systems or 7th generation game console, so it makes sense that #SDL3 won't support #X11...

I mean, #SDL2 is still available and working so if one needs #X support on #Linux, consider using that.

And yes, I do have machines that are from the 2000s that have such hardware that is affected by it...

@epiceneVivant o.o

How?

Sounds like you got some #cursed hardware like the legendarily shitty #GMA500 ...