On May 3, 2014 8:57 PM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 10:35 -0700, Ryan Capote wrote: > > AMD cards are not very well supported under Arch. > > The proprietary driver isn't well supported by ATI, it's not an Arch > issue. > > The answer to the question in the subject is, no, if you need the > proprietary driver you will notice that someday ATI's driver for your > card only is compatible to an outdated version of X. > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst#Xorg_repositories > > NVIDIA's proprietary driver support is better. Btw. I always have both > available an ATI and a NVIDI graphics, assumed one graphics should cause > issues, I simply switch between the graphics. However, I only use the > open source drivers, but in combination with linux-rt. > Arch will NOT handle the ATi card at all. It will just handle the 9800GT with opensource drivers.
