Re: ATi Radeon issues

[Matt Morgan]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:44 AM, cen <imbacen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Check which driver is being used:
>
>  lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3
>
>  
01:00.0 VGA Compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
[AMD/ATI]
 Park [Mobility Radeon 5430/5450/5470] [1002:68e0]
             Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Caicos [Radeon HD 5450]
[1682:304e]
             Kernel drive in use: radeon
             Kernel modules: radeon

Thanks!


>  Matt Morgan je 24. 02. 2017 ob 13:58 napisal:
>
>  I just switched my son's computer to one that has a Radeon 5450. A low-end
>  card, but still it should be better than his old computer's Intel GMA 2500.
>  It's running the radeon open source driver and performance in minecraft
>  (the only app that's relevant) is worse than before.
>
>  I couldn't just take the video card and put it in his old computer--it's a
>  small form-factor with no slots.
>
>  This is Fedora 25, like it was before. The new computer has the same
>  processor as the old, though less RAM (5GB v. 8GB--unfortunately I was not
>  able to swap it over).
>
>  I see lots of conflicting info online about whether the fglrx driver works
>  on newer kernels, and I don't want to do anything time-consuming to get it
>  to work. Is it easier than I think? Should I just buy a cheap NVIDIA card,
>  or will that be a hassle too? Or is the RAM the issue?
>
>  All advice welcome. Thanks!
>  Matt
>
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