Fedora 20 with AMD catalyst video driver

[Steven Rosenberg]

I keep hoping somebody will pick up the AMD Catalyst driver in RPM
Fusion, but nothing has happened yet. There has been no RPM-packaged
driver for F20, and nothing for F21 at this point.

Options include using AMD's installer, or at least in F20, using the
F19 packages. I've done both, and now I'm doing the latter (using the
F19 packages in F20). Here are instructions for doing that:
http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/linux/fedora/2014_0522_best_way_to_get_AMD_catalyst_in_fedora_20

Fedora users should at least have the choice of whether or not they
want to run Catalyst -- and have a distro-specific package from which
to do that. There has been no "break in the action" for Nvidia
proprietary driver users. That package has been in RPM Fusion without
interruption.

While I could say, "just don't use Fedora," instead I'm going to say,
"Linux users should think twice before buying AMD hardware," which I
wish I did this last time.
--
Steven Rosenberg
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steven at stevenrosenberg.net


On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Joonas Sarajärvi <muep at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2014-09-15 19:18 GMT+03:00 Bruno Jean <bjean at redhat.com>:
>> So my question is the following: Is the default video driver in the fedora 20 allows for a 2560×1440 external monitor resolution with AMD GPU, or I should go with another GPU (Nvidia?) or a motherboard GPU.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your support,
>>
>
> At least the built-in Radeon HD6550d GPU that I have in a quad-core
> AMD CPU works nicely with the fedora default drivers. While I do not
> have a 2560×1440 display to try with it, I do not have problems with
> displays of smaller resolutions getting set to their correct
> resolutions.
>
> The stuff you miss out on by not using Catalyst should mostly be some
> OpenGL performance and features, and possibly some power management
> stuff. But even with the Fedora default drivers, OpenGL performance
> seems sufficient for a large number of OpenGL based applications.
>
> - Joonas
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