Windows 10 Radeon Software vs. AMDGPU On Ubuntu Linux

[stiiixy]

He's definitely right. IGP is integrated graphics processor. You find them on NB's and APU's.

IGP is integrated, and DGP is discrete. I see this used on Arch and a couple other sites. I found it's a nice simple method to make it easier to remember the differance by simply changing the first letter.

Anyway, can anyone explain to be in lay how I make use, or force full-time if I have to, the DGP on my laptop instead of the IGP? Apparently the kernel is supposed to be 'intelligent', but it doesn't appear to happening with my one whole day of testing. Also, I'm on mesa and a Radeon 7670 on Arch (xorg is at 1.18, radeon at 7.7 and whatever comes after it, using all standard arch packages) so no AMDGPU for me (missed by one gen!). Apparently using radeon.modeset=1 doesn't do anything for this issue.

[duby229]

You might be right.

He's definitely right. IGP is integrated graphics processor. You find them on NB's and APU's.

[Amarildo]

The steam runtime mimics Ubuntu 12.04 LTS support on newer distributions (maybe it's not 12.04 anymore) since 12.04 is the one that's supported by steam.

You might be right.

[Nille_kungen]

You see, this is a thing that distro developers could be doing since 2012. Steam ships those old libraries and they're Ubuntu 12.04 compatible, right? So there's no reason to use those libraries in post 2012 distros unless they don't have those libraries at all.

The steam runtime mimics Ubuntu 12.04 LTS support on newer distributions (maybe it's not 12.04 anymore) since 12.04 is the one that's supported by steam.

[Amarildo]

I think you will need to tackle Gabe on the street, tell him directly might get it fixed!

And risk delaying HL3 for more 10 years? Nah-hah :P

Actually, VALVe is pretty responsive in their github page. I reported a bug (2 days ago) and they reviewed it in no time. Hopefully a patch update will come soon.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4409

[theriddick]

I agree

I will contact VALVe and say that Catalyst has already started dying and that they should enable some form of automatic driver/library detection. But since they live in the past in many ways and they operate withing "VALVe time" limits, I don't think that will happen so soon (hopefully, it will).

I think you will need to tackle Gabe on the street, tell him directly might get it fixed!

[Amarildo]

Most people, the vast majority, just use the igp.

What is IGP?

[liam]

Most people run proprietary NVIDIA/AMD drivers, so they won't face problems I guess.

Most people, the vast majority, just use the igp.

[Amarildo]

Yeah thanks, but I know about all the solutions, just seems unnecessary and scares away linux noobs which is something we DON'T want (Linux needs more gamers!)

I agree

I will contact VALVe and say that Catalyst has already started dying and that they should enable some form of automatic driver/library detection. But since they live in the past in many ways and they operate withing "VALVe time" limits, I don't think that will happen so soon (hopefully, it will).

The next thing in my to-do list is contact Canonical developers and point out that, for the 16.04 release, they should add some sort of post-install script to add the command above in how Steam launches.

You see, this is a thing that distro developers could be doing since 2012. Steam ships those old libraries and they're Ubuntu 12.04 compatible, right? So there's no reason to use those libraries in post 2012 distros unless they don't have those libraries at all.

[theriddick]

Yeah thanks, but I know about all the solutions, just seems unnecessary and scares away linux noobs which is something we DON'T want (Linux needs more gamers!)