[CentOS] CentOS 7 on Dell Inspiron with ATI Radeon HD 6320 video card
Hi, I'm currently installing CentOS 7 on a client's Dell Inspiron laptop. Here's the video card: # lspci | grep -i vga 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320] Most of the time, I either have to deal with Intel or NVidia graphic chipsets. As far as I understand, I can choose either the free 'radeon' driver or the proprietary 'fglrx' driver with this video card. I'm not too worried about performance, since this will essentially be a laptop for office productivity. On the other hand, I do worry about driver stability. I vaguely remember having seen freeze problems with these cards. Which driver should I use for a most stable setup? Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 on Dell Inspiron with ATI Radeon HD 6320 video card
On 03/15/2015 05:15 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'm currently installing CentOS 7 on a client's Dell Inspiron laptop. Here's the video card: # lspci | grep -i vga 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320] Most of the time, I either have to deal with Intel or NVidia graphic chipsets. As far as I understand, I can choose either the free 'radeon' driver or the proprietary 'fglrx' driver with this video card. I'm not too worried about performance, since this will essentially be a laptop for office productivity. On the other hand, I do worry about driver stability. I vaguely remember having seen freeze problems with these cards. Which driver should I use for a most stable setup? Cheers, Niki It sort of depends on your usage. For normal desktop usage, the provided Radeon driver seems adequate and stable. If you have any need for reasonable 3D performance, fglrx is a better proposition. Like you I've mostly dealt with nVidia or Intel video. I had some painful initial issues with the fglrx driver, but once I became more accustomed to the quirks it was quite stable. The wiki at elrepo was helpful. This was on desktop systems, I know the portable chipsets used in the laptops are a bit different. -- Jay Leafey - jay.lea...@mindless.com Memphis, TN ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 on Dell Inspiron with ATI Radeon HD 6320 video card
Le 15/03/2015 20:09, Jay Leafey a écrit : Like you I've mostly dealt with nVidia or Intel video. I had some painful initial issues with the fglrx driver, but once I became more accustomed to the quirks it was quite stable. The wiki at elrepo was helpful. This was on desktop systems, I know the portable chipsets used in the laptops are a bit different. I've experimented a bit with both, and went with the free radeon driver, which seems stable. On a side note, the laptop gave me some headaches with the Broadcom BCM4313 wireless driver. After some research in the CentOS wiki and a page on ELrepo, I managed to configure it. I took some notes here: https://kikinovak.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/configurer-une-carte-wifi-broadcom-bcm4313-sous-centos-7/ Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : i...@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
