* Peter Mc Donough <[email protected]> [03-30-17 15:34]: > Am 28.03.2017 um 08:05 schrieb Ulrich Pegelow: > > > ... > > Sad thing is that I had been warned before. AMD already had a bad > > reputation when it comes to Linux drivers. I didn't take this serious > > enough. Now I have to dump a 300 bucks GPU after only three years. > > I can't say that. All my AMD graphics cards worked out of the box with the > free radeon drivers. This was one reason I preferred AMD cards in the first > place. I always did some research before I bought a card and read that one > could not take for granted that Nvidia worked out of the box with Linux. > Of course, I also checked whether there were fglrx driver for my Linux. > > Presently I use an AMD rx460, and yes the nuisance exists with amdgpu-pro on > my Suse Tumbleweed. But the open source amdgpu driver works reasonably fast > and I hope I will soon be able to use openCL with my graphics card on Suse.
And I have had the opposite experience, and nvidia seem to just work with the nvidia proprietary drivers. albeit, sometimes a wait is involved for drivers matching new kernels. openSUSE and >20 years of linux. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo @ http://linuxcounter.net ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
