I didn't not complain about this, but others... and i see no difference between closed source whatever/whenever/wherever... Some things are closed source for me (the same for any other people) and that is it
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Originally posted by System25 View PostGPU lacks network connectivity and in modern systems if it would try something nasty like DMA to unrequested space, IOMMU would engage and illegal access will be caught.
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Originally posted by _SXX_ View PostWould be a cool to see Valve pushing AMD to spend more resources towards open source drivers...All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by _SXX_ View PostWould be a cool to see Valve pushing AMD to spend more resources towards open source drivers...
open source one is already far, far more stable.
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Originally posted by peppercats View PostI'm not even entirely sure why they're still maintaining their closed source stack on linux so hard when it's obvious the opensource ones will overtake them by next year at this rate...
open source one is already far, far more stable.
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Originally posted by kenjitamura View PostI wonder if we could ever hope to see the day open source AMD drivers match the performance of the closed-source Nvidia drivers. That would be a huge accomplishment for open source devs.
I kind of wish Valve would spend their resources on improving Mesa rather than point out flaws on Catalyst. I'm sure AMD is well aware their linux catalyst drivers aren't that great, they don't care, and they never have. But by pitching in to Mesa, they're helping both AMD and Intel (and nouveau) accelerate their development. If driver devs could focus on improving their hardware while a 3rd party can get openGL standards up to par, we'd get a decent boost in progress.
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Originally posted by peppercats View PostI'm not even entirely sure why they're still maintaining their closed source stack on linux so hard when it's obvious the opensource ones will overtake them by next year at this rate...
open source one is already far, far more stable.
Last I checked about 2-3 weeks ago, open-source drivers were incredibly unstable on my 7850. Things like web browsing and even looking at pictures caused GPU restarts, and prior to that, there were even issues with VDPAU playback causing hard locks.
Although if I understand right, this is mainly kernel-related, and affects 3.15 through 3.17rc1 (haven't tried anything higher). Ideally though, I'd prefer not to be stuck on 3.14 to have a 90-ish% stable experience.
fglrx gets a lot of criticism, but for general desktop usage, I found it pretty stable. Even with games it was stable, aside from a few games in Wine in my experience.
I would prefer to use the open-source driver, but I would also like to use my computer comfortably and not be stuck on outdated components if it can be helped.Last edited by Guest; 16 September 2014, 11:30 PM.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostI kind of wish Valve would spend their resources on improving Mesa rather than point out flaws on Catalyst. I'm sure AMD is well aware their linux catalyst drivers aren't that great, they don't care, and they never have. But by pitching in to Mesa, they're helping both AMD and Intel (and nouveau) accelerate their development. If driver devs could focus on improving their hardware while a 3rd party can get openGL standards up to par, we'd get a decent boost in progress.
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