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newsAMD/ATI BARTS XT Radeon HD 6870 card
I purchased a second-hand midi-tower PC in May of this year:
http://bkhome.org/news/201705/bought-old-pc.html
It has on-board Intel video, but also came with an enormous AMD
PCI-bus video card, model BARTS XT, also known as Radeon HD 6870.
I removed the AMD card before first power-on, and never put it back.
However, testers of Easy/Quirky Pyro64 have reported issues with NVIDIA
and AMD video, so I decided to plug in my AMD card and test it.
Booting Easy Pyro64 0.6.4 from USB-drive, get a desktop. Fine, but 'glxinfo' reported software rasterising. Also, exit from X to commandline results in a blank screen. Also, under certain conditions, that I have not yet narrowed down, there is a hang at bootup.
This is actually "good news", as I am getting problems that testers have reported, so I have something to work with.
More info:
http://www.geeks3d.com/20101022/amd-radeon-hd-6870-launch-day-meet-barts-xt/
Yet another fan! Note, the HD 6870 was released late in 2010. Note also, I am using the HDMI output, not those big DVI sockets (I have never used DVI, know nothing about it).