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AMD Linux Drivers Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 22:46:34 No.545347

So, when is the new unified open source AMD stack getting released? I don't mean their special stuff like TressFX, I mean the base GPU drivers. I read somewhere a while back that they were going to move to a model where the closed source stuff in Catalyst is all just a plugin. And how's it going to play with Linux?

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 23:10:15 No.545356

I think they had their catalyst team join the amdgpu team to speed things up or something.

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 23:20:27 No.545359

Nothing is going to change, 1% of users making 0% revenue.

Anonymous 03/17/16 (Thu) 23:23:15 No.545361

>>545356

Actaully, that would be the fglrx team that was moved, as they will no longer develop it.

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 00:44:02 No.545410

>>545347

I believe the 4.5 kernel is going to have support.

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 00:59:41 No.545418

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>AMD

>Linux drivers

>Any drivers at all

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 01:12:23 No.545427

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXi0ByVTFyY

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 01:34:40 No.545436

>>545418

>Intel's shill team is going all out because their next gen can't compete on any front

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 01:45:13 No.545444

>>545436

Intel, and to a lesser extent NVidia, have competent open source display drivers, AMD doesn't and fglrx is fucked.

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 01:48:20 No.545446

>>545444

>what is radeonsi

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 02:02:12 No.545453

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Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 02:30:10 No.545466

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multinationals_with_research_and_development_centres_in_Israel

>We 2016 Y'all

>esoteric-egyptian babylonian race IQ ftw

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 03:09:59 No.545483

>>545444

>NVidia

>open source display drivers

GTX 750 user here. I can't even fucking run Tux Racer with the current drivers. Nvidia drivers are fucking bullshit.

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 03:16:34 No.545486

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>>545444

>NVidia, have competent open source display drivers

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 03:18:18 No.545487

>>545444

>next gen Iris requires proprietary microcode

>nouveau is already a dead end because of proprietary encrypted microcode

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 05:11:01 No.545521

>>545483

my 760 could run tf2 on medium and low settings on the OS drivers. The 900 series apparently has no problems running games on high.

proprietary are really really good though

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 07:23:15 No.545556

>>545521

I'm using proprietary. It sucks balls. I can't even run KDE in OpenGL mode. I'm 100% done with Nvidia cards.

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 08:10:42 No.545564

So when should I upgrade ?

should i just go get an R9 380 now and an SSD or wait till all this fancy new shit comes out and do pretty much a full rebuild?

I really want to drop windows for good and the future looks brighter every day.

if trump gets elected hopefully he will make linux great again.

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 09:35:00 No.545576

>>545556

>I can't even run KDE in OpenGL mode

Link to a bug report or it didn't happen. Seriously, I always could play games on the proprietary driver, something so basic like KDE in OpenGL mode should work for everybody.

I also have a separate machine with 8400GS under nouveau. Old games run at unplayable framerate but desktop effects work perfectly. Also the nouveau driver might be outdated there.

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 14:19:16 No.545683

>>545444

Intel yes, Nvidia no. Nouveau is hot fucking dogshit, running at about 20% the performance of proprietary. Radeonsi, on the other hand, runs at 90% of proprietary.

Nvidia is openly hostile to FOSS, where AMD releases white papers and has full time FOSS developers.

This was the whole reason I threw away my old GTX 550 Ti and got an R7 370, and I regret nothing. Fuck Nvidia for openly shitting on their own users.

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 14:28:26 No.545689

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>AMD

>Linux drivers

Naw, AMDs piece of shit drivers for Linux are one of the main reasons I went back to Windows on my AMD machine

>Have AMD drivers

>perform kernel upgrade to 4.0

>Get kernel panic on boot because AMD gcc build compatibility and AMD knew about this bug for fucking months beforehand

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 14:41:05 No.545705

>Running linux

>upgrade nvidia card with new amd card that is 50% faster

>thanks to shitty amd drivers it actually ran almost 50% slower

>returned the card

Been trying to get away from intel and nvidia. I just hope Zen doesnt end up completely sucking.

Anonymous 03/18/16 (Fri) 21:49:01 No.545997

>proprietary are really really good though

I have a 960 and I get occasional kernel panics on arch with the proprietary drivers (about once a week or once every other week).

This did not happen when I was using my old amd video card with open source drivers, so I assume it is nvidia's doing.

Anonymous 03/19/16 (Sat) 15:16:13 No.546479

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>>545689

>using fglrx proprietary garbage

Your fault m8