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Dunno about new Radeons, but my experience with older series is very poor. HD3000 - very common IGP, yet whenever I enable it there are GPU lockups every few d
by mich41 14y ago
Dunno about new Radeons, but my experience with older series is very poor.
HD3000 - very common IGP, yet whenever I enable it there are GPU lockups every few days. This goes on for years, on two motherboards.
AGP Radeon 9600 - occasional crashes with bad kernel/X combinations.
The 9600 works fine on "good" driver versions. HD3000 boxes are unusable without some old 8-series GeForces running under nouveau.
And now, Intel. I've been using a laptop with GMA950 IGP for almost five years. Never a single crash, except for one time when I enabled KMS long before it was cool and everybody's dog was using it. And nowadays this driver runs some Wind0ze games faster than genuine XP on the same hardware.
EDIT: I've just checked that this Intel KMS bug was happening only on some -rc release.
- dmm 14y agoWhat version of linux, mesa, xorg were you having those HD3000, Radeon 9600 problems on? The "radeon" driver is completely different from the "radeonhd" and the old reverse-engineered xorg ati driver from a few years ago. And just to be clear, anywhere I said "HD3000" I was referring the integrated graphics chip in various Intel processors not the AMD chip. The past couple of years AMD has directly supported driver development and the drivers have greatly improved.
- mich41 14y ago9600: no idea, it sits in my parents' box, 300km away and no ssh. 3000: 760G chipset, many (most? all?) Linux/Mesa/Xorg version released in last two years. Completely random lockups, usually at few days of uptime. I no longer use one of this mobos so I'll have a look at this issue if I find some HDD to boot it.
- sspiff 14y agoI have been running HD3000/HD4000 for years and never had a crash or lock up. You're not talking about AMD's Radeon HD 3k/4k are you? Because I believe both dmm and I are talking about Intel's HD range.