fglrx is not more supported fwik. I agree with a tool but is there something that we could use from others distro ?
On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 13:03 -0500, Jerrod Frost wrote: > adding the noproprietary option shouldn't be so hard. Can't we do the > same thing we use to have the fglrx option for? I'm not sure have > nouveau as default is the best OOTB experience. > adding a driver selection tool may be useful considering its > something other distributions have, but then its another tool for us > to maintain. > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:05 PM Geaaru <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hereinafter I try to push some questions about we can enhancement > > gpu detection on ISO images. > > > > Currently, gpu-configuration script follow this steps: > > > > * retrieve gpu cards id > > * for every id try to identify producer > > * for nvidia producer: > > - if card is legacy (driver 390) try to load legacy driver > > - for new cards or not legacy cards (defined in list) try to load > > last nvidia drivers (optional could be forced legacy option.. not > > yet on last iso build but available on gpu-configuration) > > - for nouveau driver currently it is needed at boot add > > noproprietary option (not so easy for users) > > * for radeon driver: > > - with last changes (i removed deprecated fglrx code) and now it is > > used xorg driver > > > > Open questions: > > > > 1) Do we want use nouveau as default or not ? > > > > 2) For legacy gpu cards for start nouveau by default (without need > > of user operations) we need to create a map of all legacy video > > cards. How we want do that ? Do we want create a tool for permit at > > users to send feedback about video cards and driver used ? > > > > 3) is there a tool from others distro that could be integrate in > > sabayon for help users on configure and tuning video cards ? > > > > How we want move ? > > > > -- geaaru > > > >
