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That's odd. What laptop was that? There really shouldn't be any reason for all but newest ATI GPUs to not work out of box. With nvidia the terrible stability a

That's odd. What laptop was that? There really shouldn't be any reason for all but newest ATI GPUs to not work out of box. With nvidia the terrible stability and kernel upgrade hassles plus the need to externally install the drivers means it should be much uglier an experience than out of box ATI OSS drivers. Anyway as long as it works...

keypusher 13y ago
Never had any stability issues with nVidia drivers personally. As far as installing, I just use the akmod packages from rpmfusion, they take the binaries and package it up for every kernel. When you pull down a kernel update, you also pull down the associated binary drivers. Open source ATI linux drivers might be less install hassle, the problem is they just don't work for anything beyond the most popular cards running 2D graphics on a single monitor.
- blinkingled 13y ago
  >Open source ATI linux drivers might be less install hassle, the problem is they just don't work for anything beyond the most popular cards running 2D graphics on a single monitor. That's no longer the case. http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/
nimbs 13y ago
> means that normal users shouldn't really need to install binary drivers if they have a recent ATI GPU. > There really shouldn't be any reason for all but newest ATI GPUs to not work out of box. So you don't have any problems if you have a recent ATI GPU, unless you have a recent ATI GPU?
- dmm 13y ago
  The newest AMD cards had in-kernel, free software, driver support from the day they hit the shelves.
72deluxe 13y ago
I have been using nVidia cards on Linux since the GeForce 2. I have never had any problems with their driver (apart from misconfiguration by me before X.org started autodetecting screens/GPUs and xorg.conf etc. was deprecated).
- gnoway 13y ago
  It's a small thing, but their binary drivers do not support kernel modesetting, so if I want to switch between X and the console it takes several seconds with a visible screen blank. Using nouveau (or anything that supports KMS) is very fast by comparison.
  - 72deluxe 13y ago
    I had never noticed that but you are right! I thought it was normal....

keypusher 13y ago

Never had any stability issues with nVidia drivers personally. As far as installing, I just use the akmod packages from rpmfusion, they take the binaries and package it up for every kernel. When you pull down a kernel update, you also pull down the associated binary drivers. Open source ATI linux drivers might be less install hassle, the problem is they just don't work for anything beyond the most popular cards running 2D graphics on a single monitor.

blinkingled 13y ago
>Open source ATI linux drivers might be less install hassle, the problem is they just don't work for anything beyond the most popular cards running 2D graphics on a single monitor. That's no longer the case. http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/ http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/

nimbs 13y ago

> means that normal users shouldn't really need to install binary drivers if they have a recent ATI GPU. > There really shouldn't be any reason for all but newest ATI GPUs to not work out of box. So you don't have any problems if you have a recent ATI GPU, unless you have a recent ATI GPU?

dmm 13y ago
The newest AMD cards had in-kernel, free software, driver support from the day they hit the shelves.

72deluxe 13y ago

I have been using nVidia cards on Linux since the GeForce 2. I have never had any problems with their driver (apart from misconfiguration by me before X.org started autodetecting screens/GPUs and xorg.conf etc. was deprecated).

gnoway 13y ago
It's a small thing, but their binary drivers do not support kernel modesetting, so if I want to switch between X and the console it takes several seconds with a visible screen blank. Using nouveau (or anything that supports KMS) is very fast by comparison.
- 72deluxe 13y ago
  I had never noticed that but you are right! I thought it was normal....