I can't comment on the laptop hybrid support issues nor recent amd drivers, but a little over a year ago I tried the amd binary drivers again for the first time in years and within the first week hit slowdowns and even complete system lockups with them. The opensource drivers worked w/o fault--but were definitely slower. As for nvidia, I've used their binary drivers for nearly a decade now with no incidents--they have "just worked", and at full speed on every card I've thrown at them. YMMV, as always.
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Barry Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:14 AM, John Shaver <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks for the advice! > > > > One last question. I have never tried AMD/ATI graphics in linux. > > Does anyone know if the FirePRo discrete card would be easier to get > > working than the Quadro in a laptop? > > > > My options are: > > AMD FirePro™ W5170M > > Nvidia® Quadro® M1000M > > > > I haven't used Nvidia cards for a while (I'm not much of a gamer), and > I haven't used that particular FirePro card before. But I've used > nothing but AMD/ATI cards for years, because it requires NO work to > get them to work in Linux. My currenty Radeon HD 8490 at work is > running a 30" 2560x1600 over hdmi and a 24" 1920x1200 over DVI. Just > worked. I think the only thing I had to do was in the gui tell the > cinammon the 30" is primary, not the 24" > > The 3D/gaming performance supposedly benchmarks worse than the > proprietary drivers. I don't care about that. > > Barry > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
