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How convenient. I bought an 6700XT (overpriced, crappy, and not yet supported) a couple weeks ago as soon as they were released. Having used Nvidia for Linux, I

by csomar 6y ago

How convenient. I bought an 6700XT (overpriced, crappy, and not yet supported) a couple weeks ago as soon as they were released. Having used Nvidia for Linux, I thought AMD would play much nicer. That was far from true, but maybe because the 6700XT is yet to be fully supported in the kernel. That being said, I'm now enjoying wayland. Gnome apps already supports wayland natively. The rendering is smooth, no tearing and no issues. I think the transition to Wayland will be faster than many here are predicting.

maddyboo 6y ago
I bought a 5700XT back when it was first released. It would crash my entire system randomly, it was so bad I had to shelve it for a while and put my old GPU back in. It took a good few months for the amdgpu driver to work out the kinks, but now it runs fine. In the future I’ll definitely avoid buying GPUs less then 6 months old for use on Linux, and will diligently search for “model# crash|bugs|glitch|unstable linux|wayland” before pulling the trigger.
1_player 6y ago
I died on that hill many times, Linux people don't like if you criticise AMD because they're open and NVIDIA isn't so they're evil. Your 6700 XT might not be fully supported, but my 5500 XT is and was been causing kernel panics since I bought it one year ago. I got tired of posting the same drm bug report as reference but it's one of the 3 most commented and open for a couple years now. It's painfully obvious that the Linux driver team at NVIDIA is underbudgeted and completely ignored, so I'm happy Wayland comes for them as well and I can continue to use their high end cards and not be relegated to tried-and-tested-and-painfully-old AMD cards on Linux, at least until they sort their day 1 support for new cards.
- csomar 6y ago
  That's not good. Not good. A question: How often does the 5500XT causes kernel panics. I have been running mine for 4-5 days straight and still have no issues (beyond the xwayland tearing).
  - 1_player 6y ago
    Last time I tested, within 1 hour since boot, so looks like yours is OK
ownagefool 6y ago
I've had a 6800XT running upstream mesa, kernel and linux-firmware and it basically just works. Play proton and native games with pretty good FPS. Haven't compared it against windows, because haven't felt the need. I'm sure some functionality/perf is missing though.
- csomar 6y ago
  6800XT are supported in the latest Kernet but 6700XT are, unfortunately, not.

by csomar 6y ago

maddyboo 6y ago

I bought a 5700XT back when it was first released. It would crash my entire system randomly, it was so bad I had to shelve it for a while and put my old GPU back in. It took a good few months for the amdgpu driver to work out the kinks, but now it runs fine. In the future I’ll definitely avoid buying GPUs less then 6 months old for use on Linux, and will diligently search for “model# crash|bugs|glitch|unstable linux|wayland” before pulling the trigger.

1_player 6y ago

I died on that hill many times, Linux people don't like if you criticise AMD because they're open and NVIDIA isn't so they're evil. Your 6700 XT might not be fully supported, but my 5500 XT is and was been causing kernel panics since I bought it one year ago. I got tired of posting the same drm bug report as reference but it's one of the 3 most commented and open for a couple years now. It's painfully obvious that the Linux driver team at NVIDIA is underbudgeted and completely ignored, so I'm happy Wayland comes for them as well and I can continue to use their high end cards and not be relegated to tried-and-tested-and-painfully-old AMD cards on Linux, at least until they sort their day 1 support for new cards.

csomar 6y ago
That's not good. Not good. A question: How often does the 5500XT causes kernel panics. I have been running mine for 4-5 days straight and still have no issues (beyond the xwayland tearing).
- 1_player 6y ago
  Last time I tested, within 1 hour since boot, so looks like yours is OK

ownagefool 6y ago

I've had a 6800XT running upstream mesa, kernel and linux-firmware and it basically just works. Play proton and native games with pretty good FPS. Haven't compared it against windows, because haven't felt the need. I'm sure some functionality/perf is missing though.

csomar 6y ago
6800XT are supported in the latest Kernet but 6700XT are, unfortunately, not.