Hi,
Am 2017-01-16 15:32, schrieb Germano Massullo:
Il 13/01/2017 14:24, Christian Kanzian ha scritto:
frglx was stopped by AMD and AMDGPU-PRO will be the next generation.
So Debian 9 will be released without frglx. AMDGPU-PRO does not
support my R9 270X,
which was announce in December 2013.
Debian 9 has the Nividia 375.26 driver, which still supports my
old GT 640 announced mid 2012. On some operations the card is slower
than the GPU.
Thats why I got the R9 270X in 2015 and in 2017 it will get useless
because the
closed source driver has no support and the open source driver has no
OpenCL.
==Concerning AMDGPU (FOSS driver)==
You are not well informed about that. See official AMD statement here
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/amd-linux/866403-r9-270x-is-there-any-hope-for-amdgpu-support-in-the-future?p=866571#post866571
Will R9 270X and OpenCL work or not? To me the status is not clear and
the post dates back to April last year.
And keep in mind that OpenCL capabilities are coming into FOSS driver
soon.
If I buy a card it should work now and not at some point in the future.
Otherwise I would wait until there is some support and save power and
money.
==Concerning AMDGPU-Pro (propertary driver)==
See compatibility list, they even support R7 260 cards
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-GPU-PRO-Linux-Beta-Driver%E2%80%93Release-Notes.aspx
I know this, but my card is not listed. Also your referenced forum
thread at phronix gives hints that R9 270X is not supported by AMDGPU
Pro [0].
In two our three months I will do an upgrade to the next Debian release.
Then I will see.
Just my2cents and the current state regarding the question "what
graphics card to get?"
And I'm sorry, I feel too old to fiddle around with drivers manually.
Christian
[0]
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/amd-linux/866403-r9-270x-is-there-any-hope-for-amdgpu-support-in-the-future?p=904960#post904960
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