Radeon HD 3200 Linux Compatibility

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ATI RS780 Radeon HD 3200 , AMD ATI RS780 Radeon HD 3200 onboard video , Dell RS780 Radeon HD 3200 , RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]

      description: VGA compatible controller
      product: RS780 [Radeon HD 3200]
      vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
      physical id: 5
      bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
      version: 00
      width: 32 bits
      clock: 33MHz
      capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
      configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
      resources: irq:18 memory:d0000000-dfffffff ioport:d000(size=256) memory:fe7f0000-fe7fffff memory:fe600000-fe6fffff memory:c0000-dffff

This card will work better on older linux distributions.

inxi -G --display

Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.org 1.19.6 driver: ati,radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa tty: 238x55 
           Message: No advanced graphics data found on this system. 

compatibility

AMD does not provide any Linux binary drivers for this series or others older than the 5xxx series. In fact for Mint 18 or Ubuntu 16.04 they don't have any binary drivers at all.

The card is supported by the open source ATI driver. Tested in Linux Mint 19.2 the open source ATI driver loads. The card will not perform as well as it did under older kernels using the proprietary binary from ATI.

For Linux Mint 18 and above, you will have to get a different video card for better performance.

ref: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=237558

choppy video

Youtube + Chromium or Youtube + Google Chrome = bad video.

Youtube + Firefox or Youtube + Palemoon = acceptable (not not great) video playback.

ref: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=237390