Originally posted by AnonymousCoward
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Look, some people need the ability, and the will, to run experimental drivers, especially if it is as cheap as a reboot. Open-Source software needs its testers.
Also, note, that even the "wonderful" nvidia drivers have the following symptoms: tearing, atrocious crash-happy display hot-plugging, if flash crashes whilst playing a video it brings down X due to vdpau. (these was the symptoms of my previous notebook).
Compared to this, stuttering and tearing is quite pleasant.
The reason I joined this topic, is to state my findings on a work-around for KDE & Source users, and later on to state some sample tuning parameters to reduce the effect of the ondemand governor reducing usability. That latter one, I think is applicable to every Linux system, and could maybe help performance of Mesa drivers too? (referring to the ondemand governor significantly reducing performance in Mesa)
If you want it all, I think you need to use the Intel drivers. Unfortunately the only intel card I have is an old netbook, but it works pretty great there.
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Originally posted by mmstick View PostI hope you realize that GCN hardware and open source radeon drivers DO NOT WORK unless you enjoy getting a seizure and/or migraine from black boxes flickering all over the screen.
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Wine performance
Originally posted by shazeal View PostOn my 7850 with 3.9.4 kernel performance all round is greatly improved.
In cgminer I am getting about 15Mh/s more with identical settings as per 13.4 drivers.
In World of Warcraft under wine there as about 10-20fps more on average.
Native games already ran fine before so i am not noticing a difference.
Tearing I was seeing in VLC/Youtube seems to be gone.
Regards,
Phil Potter
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Originally posted by ashkbajw View PostGLX_EXT_buffer_age support.....
wasnt that the extension wayland needed? i guess they'll be supporting wayland then...
This is the same extension that NVidia added a couple months ago, and is in Mesa 9.2git/10.0-pre. It will help reduce tearing and improve performance of X compositors (KWin/Compiz/etc.)
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