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  • #81
    Originally posted by xgt001 View Post
    I am tired of listening to all this suspend-doesnt-work-so-amd-sucks! remarks. Could you please elaborate ?

    Doesnt work in what sense? Machine does not resume at all? Or just the screen is blank on resume? In the latter case you just needed to increase the brightness a bit to get it working. Annoying workaround : YES. But a bug report with proper description would help more dont you feel?
    You have to ask? I had the impression it's a very common problem. Yes, one is out of luck. The screen is blank and there are some LEDs flashing. I forget which ones. It's not my machine. AFAIK, one has to reboot the machine when you get that state.

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    • #82
      Originally posted by ChrisXY View Post
      I have a HD 6550M and it wouldn't wake up correctly with fglrx for several months.

      Since I switched to the open source driver the notebook wakes up correctly about every time.
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      Come to think of it, I think with the ATI hardware of the T500 being HD 3650, that it is the radeon driver that is involved. It's either not being used and it's using VESA which I doubt or the radeon driver is not benefiting or doing any kind of 'good' job since the laptop functions are not working properly. I am sure that the fglrx driver wasn't installed on the laptop. It's a brand new Debian Wheezy install.

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      • #83
        Originally posted by D0pamine View Post
        perhaps phoronix should publish piglit comparisons instead of/as well as performance benchmarks......

        EDIT
        aside from hw video decoding the radeon driver is perfectly adequate for my needs
        I would like to see piglet Linux drivers (Intel,Nvidia,AMD,xf86) vs Windows (Nvidia,AMD) to see the contrast as well. +1


        I use the closed source AMD driver as well as the NVIDIA closed source. NVIDIA has always been more stable even on Windows trust me. everyone was knocking ATI drivers back in the day. I also use laptops with <r300 cards that use the opensource xf86 drivers and they are more stable, although they run hot and performance isn't amazing (seriously unimpressive) . My main rig uses AMD proper and so far the only video crash (limited) was playing skyrim in Wine when switching between the loading screen and the main game display.

        To those with tearing issues, you know you can force vsync right? Personally I limit my FPS in gaming and sync to avoid that issue. You would be amazed at how well ~30 FPS play when you have headroom up the wazoo as to avoid chokes.

        Originally posted by elanthis View Post
        I haven't read a single post in this thread so far, but...



        Why in the name of Popeye should anyone have to "setup their rig" to get _anything_ working properly anymore, much less basic media functionality?
        Well not all of us use things like Ubuntu or Mint. Gentoo,Arch distros in their vien, yeah you pretty much are setting up everything anyway whats the difference?
        Don't you need to setup things in Windows as well or am I missing your point? Why are there things like CCC if you're not meant to tweak things?
        Last edited by nightmarex; 13 August 2012, 11:07 AM.

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        • #84
          Originally posted by nej_simon View Post
          I don't think it's a vague statement. With "doesn't work" I mean that the driver causes crashes, graphic corruption or is really slow ie. things that make the computer unusable. I had two Intel-based laptops before the AMD-based one. Also sometimes I use another laptop with a geforce, and my desktop computer has one too. Neither of them have any issues like this. So yes, this does give me the impression that the fglrx driver is faulty. At this point I don't care if fglrx follows specifications better than Intel's or Nvidia's drivers, I just want my computer to not crash. Perhaps the kernel, compiz or Unity is buggy and fglrx is actually a great driver but since Intel and Nvidia is able to handle this then so should fglrx.
          "Crashes, graphic corruption and really slow" is *slightly* more specific. Would be better with a list including affected program, distro, graphics card, fglrx version etc.
          As for the blame-game, I actually am of a different opinion: I see no reason why AMD should pour man-hours into their drivers to fix someone else's mess. They already have their hands full. And if anyone has issues with the OpenGL specs (too complex, obscure and what not), they should take them to the Khronos group, not AMD.
          Now before I get jumped: there are most probably bugs in fglrx, like in any piece of software, especially of that complexity. BUT I really find people's habit of jumping to conclusions on how every problem has to be caused by fglrx "because it works with XYZ" totally disingenuous. Which is what that Slashdot entry is about.

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          • #85
            I solved issues with proprietary drivers long long ago by simply not using them.

            The only proprietary driver worth a damn in Linux any more is Nvidia's proprietary driver. If you don't mind running proprietary video drivers for performance and you are running anything but Nvidia you are doing it wrong. With ATI proprietary you are going to end up spending a lot more time and money to get the same performance and you still will have to deal with their shitastic drivers.

            I don't understand why anybody bothers to punish themselves like this.

            When everything works perfectly well on OSS Intel, OSS AMD, and proprietary Nvidia while proprietary ATI drivers are a pain to install and have application compatibility issues up the wazoo... then why assume that it's everybody else's problem except for proprietary AMD?

            It's just silly.

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            • #86
              Originally posted by xgt001 View Post
              I am tired of listening to all this suspend-doesnt-work-so-amd-sucks! remarks. Could you please elaborate ?

              Doesnt work in what sense? Machine does not resume at all? Or just the screen is blank on resume? In the latter case you just needed to increase the brightness a bit to get it working. Annoying workaround : YES. But a bug report with proper description would help more dont you feel?
              Erm dude... Just check his post history... SPOILER ALERT: don't get your expectations too high.

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              • #87
                Originally posted by drag View Post
                When everything works perfectly well on OSS Intel, OSS AMD, and proprietary Nvidia while proprietary ATI drivers are a pain to install and have application compatibility issues up the wazoo... then why assume that it's everybody else's problem except for proprietary AMD?

                It's just silly.
                Because it has never happened that things appeared to work fine, only to realize it was actually due to a bug in the drivers, right? And it's really far fetched drivers uncover bugs in other software, right?
                There is absolutely no analytic value in the "It's fglrx' fault" mindset. None. It's merely comfy sheep behavior.
                Last edited by PsynoKhi0; 13 August 2012, 04:45 PM.

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                • #88
                  AMD APU Support

                  Despite the fact that AMD drivers might not suck....I cannot get it to work correctly on any type of AMD APU without serious issues. A good example is video corruption, slowness, and it freezes a lot. If I leave my laptop with a AMD APu 3400m on the table for more than 5 minutes idle it completely locks up. Whereas my desktop which is using a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 550 TI has NEVER had this issue. I can leave it on for days on end. It just "works" I'm not exactly sure whats going wrong..but all I know is with my own experience the APU's just don't "work" the way they should..on Both 12.04 and 12.10 (current). I'd sure like someone to prove me wrong though. Is there some kind of fix? I do after all want to see ALL graphics cards work properly..not just one individual.

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                  • #89
                    Originally posted by ruinairas View Post
                    Despite the fact that AMD drivers might not suck....I cannot get it to work correctly on any type of AMD APU without serious issues. A good example is video corruption, slowness, and it freezes a lot. If I leave my laptop with a AMD APu 3400m on the table for more than 5 minutes idle it completely locks up. Whereas my desktop which is using a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 550 TI has NEVER had this issue. I can leave it on for days on end. It just "works" I'm not exactly sure whats going wrong..but all I know is with my own experience the APU's just don't "work" the way they should..on Both 12.04 and 12.10 (current). I'd sure like someone to prove me wrong though. Is there some kind of fix? I do after all want to see ALL graphics cards work properly..not just one individual.
                    We see these issues every Catalyst release for APU's and AMD seems to be ignoring these APU's on Linux side atleast which is kinda stupid considering how aggressively they publicize it. Every Catalyst release, there seems to be no improvement on the APU side , atleast from what I read in the forums.

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                    • #90
                      Originally posted by ruinairas View Post
                      Despite the fact that AMD drivers might not suck....I cannot get it to work correctly on any type of AMD APU without serious issues. A good example is video corruption, slowness, and it freezes a lot. If I leave my laptop with a AMD APu 3400m on the table for more than 5 minutes idle it completely locks up. Whereas my desktop which is using a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 550 TI has NEVER had this issue. I can leave it on for days on end. It just "works" I'm not exactly sure whats going wrong..but all I know is with my own experience the APU's just don't "work" the way they should..on Both 12.04 and 12.10 (current). I'd sure like someone to prove me wrong though. Is there some kind of fix? I do after all want to see ALL graphics cards work properly..not just one individual.
                      I have experience with that chip. I have never had any of the issues You mentioned with mine... Care to clearly state the Brand, the Model, and Model number for this laptop? The issue might have more to do with the vendor, or out of date bios.

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