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[sandy8925]

Oh sure, I agree that they're not perfect - nothing is or can be perfect.

But the number of bugs I face with Intel GPU drivers are way less...

[sandy8925]

Expected to or required to? Also, cable is dying out any way. So it's not particularly relevant.

And it's still a small number compared to...

[sandy8925]

Hm, interesting. I wonder if this is for game streamers? Or maybe for servers used by streaming services.

[sandy8925]

It's been 6-7 years since HEVC launched. Only Apple uses it for many things. It's also sometimes used for image and video recording on some Android devices....

[sandy8925]

Ouch. Mistakes happen. Thanks for the quick turnaround!...

[sandy8925]

Bingo. If NVIDIA can't keep users dependent on it's closed source drivers, they can't force shit like CUDA, private Direct3D and OpenGL APIs etc. on ...

[sandy8925]

Yeah but AMD GPU driver sucks. That's why I'm looking forward to Intel Xe....

[sandy8925]

Those flags are kernel module parameters, you can set them in config files under /etc/modprobe.d/ or by passing them to your kernel command line through...

[sandy8925]

Interesting. MSI has been providing a Windows driver for my motherboard, that enables fast charging for Apple devices.

Sounds like it probably...

[sandy8925]

Intel hasn't worked on *BSD drivers AFAIK, but I remember reading that they did start contributing to the FreeBSD driver sometime last year....

[sandy8925]

Not necessarily. Software quality has nothing to do with the license under which it'd distributed. Closed source vendor drivers can range from piss poor...

[sandy8925]

They also love open source because of how much control and insight they have over their devices. But they don't want to provide that to customers who...

[sandy8925]

If they support older hardware too, that would be great for the Nexus Player and several Android phones and tablets that used Intel Atom SoCs + PowerVR...

[sandy8925]

You're assuming it will be used for DRM on your Linux installation. That won't be the case. It'll be used for DRM in Chrome OS, Android devices, and many...

[sandy8925]

With AMD, you should always buy a year later, so you can atleast have half baked support, instead of an unusable GPU.

Anyway,...

[sandy8925]

I faced problems with AMD GPU on my R9 390 (here we go again!). Compiled Linux 5.6-git and it seems to work fine there, so I'll have to stick with that...

[sandy8925]

Ooh, this should be useful for my tablet with AMD C-60 APU.

[sandy8925]

Ooh, I might actually make use of this in the near future.

[sandy8925]

So wait 6 months for my laptop to become semi-usable? People who use Ubuntu, are usually non-tech savvy users, and they're going to install on whatever...

[sandy8925]

True. I've seen a lot of people recommending old distro versions (Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, heck even 12.04 because it worked well on something some years...