On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-11-21, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did re-emerge the nvidia drivers for the old kernel. [...] > > > > If I get bored, and it warms up a little, I may build a 5.19 kernel. > > Thing is, by the time I get around to rebooting, nvidia may have updated > > and the new one I already got will work. :/ > > About 15 years ago, after a bad experience with ATI dropping Linux > driver support for a card that was only a year old (and no luck > getting the open source driver to work reliably),
I had a similar experience about the same time, ATI proprietary drivers stopped working and the kernel driver was performing poorly - tearing when playing videos, etc. Within a few months the kernel driver improved significantly and saved me the cost of buying another graphics card. > I switched to NVidia > (mostly Qaudro cards -- fanless until that ceased to be an > option). They always worked great using the NVidia blob drivers, but > using NVidia drivers was a constant source of minor pain. Often kernel > updates had to be postponed until NVidia driver support caught up, and > they too dropped support and forced me to replace a board that was > still working perfectly. > > Eventually, I just gave up and started using built-in Intel > graphics. Life was much easier. A high-end gamer probably wouldn't be > happy, but my mid-range mainboard happily drove three decent-sized > displays (two DVI and one DP) at their native resolutions. I find the > same to be true on my newer AMD system with built-in Radeon Vega > graphics. It too "just works" with the in-kernel-tree support and > open-source Xorg drivers. By accident rather than design I ended up using mostly Radeon cards over the years. I also had a laptop with Intel graphics. Both intel and radeon have been working without problems with kernel drivers, but I am not a gamer to stress them to their limit. > I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11 screens. The > proprietary NVidia driver supported multiple screens, but the drivers > for built-in Intel and Radeon drivers don't seem to. > > -- > Grant AMD APUs with embedded radeon graphics work fine here with two monitors (DVI + HDMI ports).
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