I've never had a problem with new kernels. BTW, I use fedora. On September 15, 2019 11:59:33 PM UTC, Mikhail Novosyolov <[email protected]> wrote: >16.09.2019 2:48, Michael пишет: >> I've been downloading the drivers directly from nvidia for years and >> they are not difficult to use or update. > >Imagine that you get a USB/PCI WiFi/bluetooth adapter or any other >hardware that is supported only by newest Linux kernels. Nvidia kernel >module is usually not buildable with newest kernels. > >I wanted to say that "they are not difficult to use or update" only >untill you meat with a special use case. A requirement of a newer Linux > >kernel is probably the most probable one. > >AMDGPU is fully open source nowadays and is in the mainline kernel. >Everything (except OpenCL for now, unfortunately) works out of the box >on Linux. > >P.S. Sorry for many emails. > >> >> On September 15, 2019 11:44:20 PM UTC, Mikhail Novosyolov >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 16.09.2019 1:57, Guillermo Rozas пишет: >> >> * If binary, which are best/most stable/fastest? >> >> None are. Binaries are always a pain. >> >> I disagree with this. In Ubuntu (and derivatives) NVidia >> binary drivers are installed and usually work out of the box >> (even on Optimus-based notebooks), and OpenCL support can be >> installed directly from the official Ubuntu repositories. >I've >> been using darktable like this for years and never had any >> problem installing or upgrading the system. >> >> >> That's because Ubuntu maintainers got all the pain instead of >you... >> >> But that is about the situation in general, not just OpenCL. AMD >has >> recently reworked their OpenCL support and their work is not >fully >> finished yet, here Nvidia's OpenCL is much more mature and will >cause >> less troubles. >> >> Regards, Guillermo >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to >> [email protected] >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> darktable user mailing list >> to unsubscribe send a mail to >[email protected] >> >> >> -- >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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