I got an old Macbook Pro from 2011 and believe it or not, it still holds up today so I can't throw it away.I installed Pop OS on it, but I have two problems:>it doesnt recognize the AMD HD 6770 gpu>dvd drive seems to be completely dead, doesnt do anythingPic rel, I dont know why AMD gpu isnt recognized by the OS.
>>1555206There's probably no way to get drivers for AMD HD 6770M on any modern Linux distribution.The official AMD driver won't support any modern Kernel or Xorg windowing system.This is the case with all old drivers. Unfortunately this is where Windows 10 is so much better. You can get legacy drivers for Windows, but not for Linux.It's a real drawback and I hope someone finds a way around it.It fucking sucks to use integrated graphics with older laptops just because of le Linux
>>1555206https://www.amd.com/en/support/downloads/drivers.html/graphics/radeon-hd/radeon-hd-6000-series/amd-radeon-hd-6770.html
>>1555206Mesa supports your card actually, it's because of macs' gMUX thing,
>>1555209I'm OP, I tried running the .run file I downloaded from the site through terminal but I got an error saying my Xorg version is too new.People say rolling back packages for this would be retarded.is it over?
>>1555211I dunno what that means but it says I'm currently running:>Integrated graphics: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2) / AMD Turks
>>1555216I'm not sure either, but asked gemini and this is what it told me, I'm not sure if any of it is correct, but it says the gpu is prone to failure and it's recommended to disable it.https://lmarena.ai/c/019bdacc-5364-74b2-b023-7307b1c8912f
Found this arch wiki page and it does mention your GPU works with xf86-video-ati. seems like there is a ppa called oibaf/graphics-drivers for ubuntu, but people are saying it's breaks shit online, so maybe just install arch instead.https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MacBookPro8,x#Video_and_screen
>>1555270Opensuse tumbleweed has the package too, so you could try that as well.https://software.opensuse.org/package/xf86-video-ati
>>1555270here's a page for debian, it says you need xserver-xorg-video-ati package. so maybe try that as well.https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
Also it probably doesn't work with wayland. if you are running the new cosmic desktop it's wayland-only.
Any idea what to do about the internal optical drive that isn't recognized by Pop OS?By not recognized I mean theres literally no mention of it in the devices list and it doesnt workLike it didnt even power up or something
>>1555276OP here.That's too bad because I use Wayland. I get window flickering with Xorg.Do you think it's even worth it to get the GPU drivers or just go with integrated graphics?
