Hi. I have been a long life fan of Nvidia cards. A few years ago I decided to skip the nvidia drivers and go with the nouveau drivers. So far so good, but they tend to freeze the desktop every few days. Lately after upgrading to F30, the desktop freezes daily or more. It is more annoying than anything else. I can ssh from another computer usually and restart display-manager, but I lose whatever I am working at at the moment. I have opened up a couple of bug reports on bugzilla with extracts from the log.
My question is this. If I change to Radeon, how is the experience with those cards? Is the linux driver for these cards fine? I am not a heavy game player, mostly web browsing, and lately FreeCAD, Meshmixer though wine, PlayonLinux, user. Probably will get into Blender, therefore I might need a good video card, but not something top notch, I think.
Thx
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:12:01 -0500 Javier Perez wrote:
Is the linux driver for these cards fine?
Not the last time I tried them. As near as I can tell the only reliable open source driver is intel, but you need a motherboard with built-in intel video that supports it. Simpler to switch back to the nvidia binary drivers from rpmfusion.
I usually go with the nouveau drivers on each new fedora release till they freeze up the first time, then I give up and switch to nvidia. (Lately, I don't even have to wait for them to freeze up, since X11 under nouveau apparently can't interpret the EDID from the monitor on my 4K TV, wayland "works" but doesn't use the native resolution).
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:12:01 -0500 Javier Perez pepebuho@gmail.com wrote:
My question is this. If I change to Radeon, how is the experience with those cards? Is the linux driver for these cards fine? I am not a heavy game player, mostly web browsing, and lately FreeCAD, Meshmixer though wine, PlayonLinux, user. Probably will get into Blender, therefore I might need a good video card, but not something top notch, I think.
I used to have nvidia, and the intermittent lockup of the nouveau driver was one of my irritants. I compile my own kernel using the Fedora test kernels, so using nvidia's binary blob was problematic.
I switched to an older radeon, and it just works. I can't remember the last time I had a video issue. But, I think I am even less demanding of my video card than you are, so it might be an issue for you if you use a newer, and more powerful, card. I think they use a different driver than the radeon driver I use (amdgpu?).
I think that AMD publishes the API of their cards, while nvidia doesn't, so the AMD cards open source drivers aren't reverse engineered, while nouveau has to be because of that. Thus the nouveau glitches.
I recently saw an article that the video performance of intel graphics has taken a big leap forward with the latest generation. The graphs of performance in that article looked like double or more of older generations.
On 8/13/19 5:12 AM, Javier Perez wrote:
My question is this. If I change to Radeon, how is the experience with those cards? Is the linux driver for these cards fine? I am not a heavy game player, mostly web browsing, and lately FreeCAD, Meshmixer though wine, PlayonLinux, user. Probably will get into Blender, therefore I might need a good video card, but not something top notch, I think.
AMD cards work great. As someone else mentioned, the AMD drivers are supported by AMD, not reverse-engineered like the nouveau ones. There are sometimes issues with the absolute latest chipsets as support is being added, but otherwise it's good.
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