On 2014-03-12 08:17, Rex Dieter wrote:
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general
and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards,
they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the
open-source radeon driver (which works well). For their high-end cards,
they refuse to provide specs (so no open-source driver),
I've been a long-time advocate for AMD/ATI, largely due to their making
available the specs. Do you have references or citations to support the
claim that specs are not available for some/high-end cards?
-- Rex
Many years ago, I was a long time ATI supporter until I moved to Linux
full time. I purchased a new machine with ATI and downloaded their
binary driver. After 30 days of fighting I finally found some small
text that stated that their drivers didn't support many of the card
features including the features that I needed.
Went to the local computer store, picked up a nVidia card and in less
than 30 minutes had it up and running with the binary driver and full
features. Have stuck with nVidia since.
In all but one machine, I use the native Fedora drivers. On one machine
I need the nVidia binary driver to get Steam working properly.
I did just get a laptop with an ATI/AMD video card and installed F20
with no issues. Default Fedora driver works as I would expect. I would
have to look at the laptop to see what the video card is.
I would stick with the Fedora driver until I am sure that it doesn't
work as needed. Then use RPM fusion to install the necessary drivers.
AT least the update will come with the new kernels. This is what I use
for the one nVidia driver.
Robin
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