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Valve launches SteamOS

Valve launches SteamOS

Posted Sep 26, 2013 0:20 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Valve launches SteamOS by andreasb
Parent article: Valve launches SteamOS

Yeah, you do need a newish Mesa and kernel for half-decent support with the open source drivers. This is not surprising though -- video cards move fast. I suspect your older Mesa had no 3D hardware support at all, and was falling back to software for everything.


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