* Germano Massullo <[email protected]> [06-23-17 09:08]: > Il 23/06/2017 14:36, Guillermo Rozas ha scritto: > >> Forget using OpenCL without proprietary drivers, but there is a way to > >> use them without having to install it permanently: if you use a Radeon > >> RX card you can simply unpack the proprietary OpenCL driver somewhere > >> and let darktable use it. > > Honest question: what is the sense of doing this? If one is using the > > open source drive on "moral grounds", taking the OpenCL blob from it > > and using it when convenient doesn't make it any less closed. I > > confess that I don't know the status of the proprietary drivers for > > AMD, are they fundamentally worse than the open ones? > Technological reasons: RPM packages of AMDGPU-Pro are for RHEL/CentOS > only. Therefore you cannot install them on Fedora. But a user found out > how to use the OpenCL part of them, without having to install the RPMs
to be sure, rpm is just a script manipulation placing contained files to particular locations :) no big thing taking a file from an rpm to use for a different purpose or in a different location. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
