On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:14 AM, John Shaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the advice! > > One last question. I have never tried AMD/ATI graphics in linux. > Does anyone know if the FirePRo discrete card would be easier to get > working than the Quadro in a laptop? > > My options are: > AMD FirePro™ W5170M > Nvidia® Quadro® M1000M >
I haven't used Nvidia cards for a while (I'm not much of a gamer), and I haven't used that particular FirePro card before. But I've used nothing but AMD/ATI cards for years, because it requires NO work to get them to work in Linux. My currenty Radeon HD 8490 at work is running a 30" 2560x1600 over hdmi and a 24" 1920x1200 over DVI. Just worked. I think the only thing I had to do was in the gui tell the cinammon the 30" is primary, not the 24" The 3D/gaming performance supposedly benchmarks worse than the proprietary drivers. I don't care about that. Barry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
