On 09/19/2013 11:29 AM, Adrian Smith wrote:
Hi,
I installed Wheezy yesterday and on first boot Gnome failed to load
due to the lack of hardware accelerated graphics.
After a quick google I came across the AtiHowTo [1] page. It says I
need to install the proprietary firmware for my particular graphics
card. I did that by installing firmware-linux-nonfree as instructed.
After rebooting GNOME3 successfully loads. Success.
Shortly after I come across the ATIProprietary [2] page. It describes
how to install ATI's proprietary display driver.
So to my question; what's the difference between the proprietary,
binary-only firmware described in AtiHowto [1] and the AMD proprietary
display driver described in ATIProprietary [2]. Which one should I
use? Is it just a matter of personal preference? Does one offer better
performance over the other?
Thanks
Adrian
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/ATIProprietary
[1] describes how to install proprietary firmware for the open source
xorg driver "radeon".
[2] describes how to install proprietary ATI/AMD driver.
As far as I know, the proprietary driver has (better) 3D support.
HTH
Best regards
Georgi
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