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In OpenSUSE 42.1 is UNSTABLE when some application (for example BOINC app) is heavily working under OpenCL (numerous hangs up of xserver).
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Thanks AMD for dropping support for my Radeon HD 5850 on my main rig. I'll be buying an Nvidia GeForce as the upgrade.
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Originally posted by dungeon View PostThis is nothing new but expected ~3 year dropping cadence, same happened in year 2006, 2009., 2012. and now in 2015.
That said, expect GCN 1.0/1.1 drop in 2018.
Every fing gcn gpu has a great proportion of its functionality either as released oss code or as released documentation.
Those GPUs are bound to have support FOREVER.
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That's a little odd. I can seem to find a beta "Crimson" driver for pre-GCN at Windows ( http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-arti...tion-Beta.aspx ) and for Linux it lists the older GPU series, too http://support.amd.com/en-us/downloa...s=Linux+x86_64
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Originally posted by eydee View PostUnfortunately xorg being broken for DVI displays for ages, there is no way to generate a xorg.conf file and disabling vsync on these cards, when you're using open source drivers. That means drastically decreased performance.
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Originally posted by eydee View Post
Unfortunately xorg being broken for DVI displays for ages, there is no way to generate a xorg.conf file and disabling vsync on these cards, when you're using open source drivers. That means drastically decreased performance.
Dropping Catalyst support would be fine, if it was feature complete, but it (once again) never reached that stage, only for windows. Dropping windows support is fine, as the card can do everything it is capable of and can run everything it is capable of, at maximum possible performance. Linux performance on the other hand is still stuck somewhere around 50-70% and would require a bunch of work.
Do you have the bug number for that issue? I might be able to help
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostMeanwhile, last week nvidia has released drivers that add support for xorg-server 1.18 for GeForce 6000 series. The GeForce 5000 FX series support stopped at 1.15 though. And that's 64bit Linux support. For those that don't know, those cards were released in 2004 and 2003, respectively.
Two can play at this game...
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Here's some info regarding the new retired cards: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9815/a...gpus-to-legacy . APUs are in the list:
So all pre-Kavari APUs: Llano, Trinity, and Richland, are now also legacy APUsOriginally posted by haagch View PostThey don't drop all support, they only drop support from their proprietary driver. For the pre GCN GPUs, the open source radeon driver is (almost) complete and performs well. There's not much reason to use catalyst over it. I think once tessellation is completed (already in active development: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied.../?h=r600g-tess) it will support everything that the hardware can support, right? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...0g-Almost-GL41
BTW, from what I can see, AMD devs working in the graphics part of the open-source driver "stopped working" on it a long time ago. Dave Airlie and others have been adding features, the AMD devs have been mostly working on new archs and bug fixing.
I could be completely wrong, though.
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Originally posted by haagch View PostThey don't drop all support, they only drop support from their proprietary driver. For the pre GCN GPUs, the open source radeon driver is (almost) complete and performs well. There's not much reason to use catalyst over it. I think once tessellation is completed (already in active development: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~airlied.../?h=r600g-tess) it will support everything that the hardware can support, right? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...0g-Almost-GL41
Dropping Catalyst support would be fine, if it was feature complete, but it (once again) never reached that stage, only for windows. Dropping windows support is fine, as the card can do everything it is capable of and can run everything it is capable of, at maximum possible performance. Linux performance on the other hand is still stuck somewhere around 50-70% and would require a bunch of work.
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