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    Phoronix: AMD's Catalyst Linux Driver Preparing For A World Without An X Server?

    AMD's proprietary Catalyst Linux driver installer is interestingly being prepared for an environment without an X.Org Server...

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  • #2
    Christ on a bike! Are AMD ahead of Nvidia?

    If you compiled catalyst with no X, would that prevent you from using XWayland does anyone know?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by kaprikawn View Post
      Christ on a bike! Are AMD ahead of Nvidia?
      Nah...
      I really wish they were though. Being a arch user is a nightmare if I want to use catalyst because they're so slooow at updating. If only AMD just fused both open source and closed drivers together to create a frankenstein driver with bleeding edge support and great 3D performance I wouldn't think twice when buying a new GPU. Until that happens, however, I'm going with NVIDIA.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by kaprikawn View Post
        If you compiled catalyst with no X, would that prevent you from using XWayland does anyone know?
        I am not sure, but I think you would still be able to use XWayland, because it uses the in-tree Glamor "DDX", which is not truly device-dependent. From http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html:

        XWayland support has been merged in the master X.Org branch on April 4th, 2014, and is first released with xserver 1.16. The separate X.Org video DDXes are not needed anymore.
        Do not take my word, however.

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        • #5
          A bit too late, no? they should have had this when virtual coin miners were buying AMD GPUs like crazy... Of course someone will use it in the future, but, come on, it's 2014 and they just started separating the driver from the graphics part...
          You know why nVidia has an advantage to AMD? It's because they say they are a *software* company that just happens to make hardware... That, while AMD seems to be quite a mess internally (firing engineers after a few years, rehiring them when things go wrong, etc.).

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          • #6
            Betteridge's law?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Vidar View Post
              Nah...
              I really wish they were though. Being a arch user is a nightmare if I want to use catalyst because they're so slooow at updating. If only AMD just fused both open source and closed drivers together to create a frankenstein driver with bleeding edge support and great 3D performance I wouldn't think twice when buying a new GPU. Until that happens, however, I'm going with NVIDIA.
              Be aware, that if you are calling out to turn or make AMD opensource driver into Frankenstein, than you will be very much upvoted for inquisition, because the said driver is working perfectly in 3D and 2D for *many* AMD cards and is reason why some people buy AMD TODAY thank you very much.

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              • #8
                more and less

                Originally posted by brosis View Post
                Be aware, that if you are calling out to turn or make AMD opensource driver into Frankenstein, than you will be very much upvoted for inquisition, because the said driver is working perfectly in 3D and 2D for *many* AMD cards and is reason why some people buy AMD TODAY thank you very much.
                more and less, the performance is not so good

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by rikkinho View Post
                  more and less, the performance is not so good
                  It is for r600, and it keeps improving...

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                  • #10
                    r600

                    Originally posted by asdfblah View Post
                    It is for r600, and it keeps improving...
                    r600 is for old cards

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