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I'd say, if you care about using open source driver, you'd avoid Nvidia to begin with, and use AMD or Intel instead. Here is a very good post from one of the k

by shmerl 8y ago

I'd say, if you care about using open source driver, you'd avoid Nvidia to begin with, and use AMD or Intel instead. Here is a very good post from one of the key Nouveau developers, about why you should do exactly that: https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-drivers/open-source-nvidia-linux-nouveau/998310-nouveau-persevered-in-2017-for-open-source-nvidia-but-2018-could-be-much-better?p=998316#post998316 https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...

craftyguy 8y ago
And avoid chromium, because there are a number of dependencies under 'third-party' with no/unclear licensing (and thus are assumed to be non-free).
alacombe 8y ago
AMD cards for anything advanced are crap, they couldn't recogize one of my monitor (>2 monitor setup), and they're not playing fair with their AMF extension on Linux (works great on Windows though). Even on Windows, I cannot get the card to properly get my minitor resolutions (it's sitting beyond a multiplexer, though there no problem with nvidia).
- shmerl 8y ago
  AMD cards work just fine. Not sure what kind of issues you are having with your dual monitor. May be you are using an ancient kernel? What's an AMF extension?
  - alacombe 8y ago
    Triple monitor on two physical screen, and no AMD cards do not work, in this case using the display port output and DVI->HDMI adapter, and yes, it works with a third physical monitor (not acceptable in my setup). Nvidia/nouveau are not showing these problems. AMF == Advanced Media Framework.
    - shmerl 8y ago
      On Linux you have vaapi for hardware encoding. AMF doesn't seem to have a Linux version to begin with, so not sure what you were testing exactly: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF/issues/4 https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF/issues/4
      - alacombe 8y ago
        HEVC hardware encoding is not supported by "amdgpu" VAAPI libs (tested about 6 month ago with an RX560, did you get it working ?).

by shmerl 8y ago

craftyguy 8y ago

And avoid chromium, because there are a number of dependencies under 'third-party' with no/unclear licensing (and thus are assumed to be non-free).

alacombe 8y ago

AMD cards for anything advanced are crap, they couldn't recogize one of my monitor (>2 monitor setup), and they're not playing fair with their AMF extension on Linux (works great on Windows though). Even on Windows, I cannot get the card to properly get my minitor resolutions (it's sitting beyond a multiplexer, though there no problem with nvidia).

shmerl 8y ago
AMD cards work just fine. Not sure what kind of issues you are having with your dual monitor. May be you are using an ancient kernel? What's an AMF extension?
- alacombe 8y ago
  Triple monitor on two physical screen, and no AMD cards do not work, in this case using the display port output and DVI->HDMI adapter, and yes, it works with a third physical monitor (not acceptable in my setup). Nvidia/nouveau are not showing these problems. AMF == Advanced Media Framework.
  - shmerl 8y ago
    On Linux you have vaapi for hardware encoding. AMF doesn't seem to have a Linux version to begin with, so not sure what you were testing exactly: https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF/issues/4 https://github.com/GPUOpen-LibrariesAndSDKs/AMF/issues/4
    - alacombe 8y ago
      HEVC hardware encoding is not supported by "amdgpu" VAAPI libs (tested about 6 month ago with an RX560, did you get it working ?).