Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > step 1: google: radeon gentoo wiki > > step 2: read > > step 3: follow instructions > > You forgot: > > step 4: give up and buy an nvidia card. > > ;) > > I've always had consistently bad luck with radeon under Linux. The > last time I tried, the open-source driver kept locking-up or crashing > and the proprietary driver stopped supporting my card before it was 2 > years old. > > Maybe things have improved in the past couple years...
Since at least 8 years (maybe over 10 years, can't remember exactly) I use ATI/Radeon Cards with open source driver and never had major problems with that. Never had a big interest in 3D performance. For me it was always sufficient when my screensaver (glslideshow) works. About two years ago I bought a Radeon R7 250. At the beginning I had some problems when I activated compositing, but after an driver update some weeks later it works flawless. After the latest driver update a few weeks ago, 2D performance increased a lot and is really perfect now, even with UHD resolution. -- Regards wabe
