Comment # 230
on bug 111481
from Daniel Suarez
(In reply to John Smith from comment #225) > (In reply to Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer from comment #141) > > > For radeonsi the AMD_DEBUG=nodma environment variable is a workaround until > > we figure out a proper fix. > > Is this seriously what AMD calls "support"? No offense but this is > ridiculous, this card has been out for four months and it still can't even > browse firefox reliably, even after these "workarounds" and "patches". > > Then we waited two months for the drivers to even get properly released, and > all this wait was for nothing because the drivers are useless, you can't > even browse firefox or let alone play any actual games. What is the point of > having open source drivers if they don't even work? Nvidia's GPUs have had > day one support, and unlike AMD, "support" actually means the GPU works for > something that is meaningful. I wouldn't really call what is happening here "support". Really feels like us Linux users were thrown to the side with little consideration.
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