Nearly 20 years after launch, ancient AMD Radeon HD 2000 and 3000 GPUs finally get a Linux fix for corrupted video playback
A new kernel contributor used AI to develop a patch for the drivers powering his nearly-20-year-old Radeon GPU.
Nearly two decades after their release, Linux users can now enjoy stable video playback on AMD Radeon HD 2000 and HD 3000 GPUs through a newly accepted kernel patch. The issue, affecting the Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine on R600 architecture chips, caused visual corruption during hardware-accelerated video playback when the GPU handled 3D or desktop drawing workloads simultaneously.
The patch addresses this by ensuring UVD input buffers remain in VRAM, a fix that should work across the RV610, RV620, RV630, RV635, and RV670 silicon families.
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