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Personally, I find installing the AMD driver on common Linux distros pretty easy. 1 command to build itself into a package for your distro, then 1 command to in
by Glyptodon 13y ago
Personally, I find installing the AMD driver on common Linux distros pretty easy. 1 command to build itself into a package for your distro, then 1 command to install. Reboot and you're good.
Sure, you probably can't fix the screen tearing. And their VDPAU equivalent isn't the greatest. But getting up and running? It's always been really easy.
- shuzchen 13y agoIn my personal experience (I have a thinkpad x120e with a E-350) it used to be the case that I needed the proprietary drivers to get anything respectable. However, things have changed recently (in the last year or so) and I've been getting good performance out of the opensource drivers.
- GigabyteCoin 13y agoI can install the open source ATI package on Arch linux in one single command: pacman -S xf86-video-ati ...but it doesn't actually work. The card doesn't get used to it's full potential. Which two commands are you talking about?
- Datsundere 13y agoopen source drivers don't have full 3d support yet. Also, you can change your power profiles and specify a few custom configs. But typically open source drivers are still not as good as proprietary regarding 3d support.