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When was the last time you used AMD on Linux? The intree amdgpu driver is so much easier to deal with than the out of tree nvidia driver and gets support for ne
by dharmab 6y ago
When was the last time you used AMD on Linux? The intree amdgpu driver is so much easier to deal with than the out of tree nvidia driver and gets support for new hardware much faster than the nouveau driver.
There was even a period of about of month last year where nvidia didn’t support the new kernel.
- danieldk 6y agoAnd when comparing to Intel, which is usually well-supported by Linux: the kernel-side Intel GPU support had several nasty bugs that persisted through the first few 5.x kernel releases leading to graphics lockups. https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_Kernel_5.5_Will_Not_Fix_The_Frequent_Intel_GPU_Hangs_In_Recent_Kernels https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_Kernel_5.5_Will_Not_Fix_The_F... My Intel NUC8i5BEH would regularly have GPU lockups and it took them several months to fix the issues.
- bavell 6y agoI still get these lockups to this day, even on 5.11 and my i5 6600k. Looking forward to a 5950X when I can find one!
- mywittyname 6y agoHow are data centers with large CUDA offerings handling the situation with nVidia driver on Linux? Running them on Windows?
- dharmab 6y agoAt my company we run LTS kernels and rebuild the driver ourselves every time we push a kernel update. On home systems, Arch Linux provides a system to automate the module generation [0], however features like CUDA break sometimes. [1] [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_S... [1] https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-45528-is-incompatible-with-linux-59/ https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-45528-is-incompatible-with...