Is it possible to download packages for debian 5(lenny)? I bought a gpu from 2007 for old 2006 pc. And face a problem of it not working properly. It has(currently debian 13) open-source driver that only renders a video output. Is there a way to download pakages for debian 5 lenny and get official proprietary driver. This pc still will be used for offline 2004 games.
ATI Radeon x1650 pro GPU.
For Kernel 2.6.26-1
Need to install Catalyst/fglrx amd driver.
Thanks.
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Welcome to the forums @burningcalc
Yes, Debian 5 packages still exist, but they’re not on regular mirrors anymore. You’d have to point sources.list to archive.debian.org or use snapshot.debian.org, and even then you’ll need to disable date checks. So from a purely archival standpoint, Lenny is still obtainable: debian:/dists 2009-08-01 23:08:40 - snapshot.debian.org
The bigger issue is the ATI driver itself. The Radeon X1650 Pro sits in AMD’s legacy range, and the last proprietary driver that supported it was Catalyst 9.3. Also see here.
What you’re seeing now with the open-source radeon driver is expected. On modern Mesa it’ll give you basic display output and maybe some very limited acceleration, but nothing close to what those cards could do back in the mid-2000s.
If the goal is offline 2004-era gaming on that hardware, then yes your best chance is either installing an old distro that originally supported that card well, like Debian 5 or an Ubuntu 8.x era release, or just running Windows XP. From a practicality standpoint, XP is still the least painful way to get full acceleration out of an X1650 Pro. (keep it offline)
So yes, it’s theoretically possible to dig up Lenny and old packages, but getting fglrx working today is more of an archaeology project. Let us know how you solve this one. 