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On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2022-11-21, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I did re-emerge the nvidia drivers for the old kernel. [...] |
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> > If I get bored, and it warms up a little, I may build a 5.19 kernel. |
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> > Thing is, by the time I get around to rebooting, nvidia may have updated |
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> > and the new one I already got will work. :/ |
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> About 15 years ago, after a bad experience with ATI dropping Linux |
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> driver support for a card that was only a year old (and no luck |
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> getting the open source driver to work reliably), |
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I had a similar experience about the same time, ATI proprietary drivers |
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stopped working and the kernel driver was performing poorly - tearing when |
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playing videos, etc. Within a few months the kernel driver improved |
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significantly and saved me the cost of buying another graphics card. |
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> I switched to NVidia |
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> (mostly Qaudro cards -- fanless until that ceased to be an |
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> option). They always worked great using the NVidia blob drivers, but |
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> using NVidia drivers was a constant source of minor pain. Often kernel |
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> updates had to be postponed until NVidia driver support caught up, and |
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> they too dropped support and forced me to replace a board that was |
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> still working perfectly. |
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> Eventually, I just gave up and started using built-in Intel |
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> graphics. Life was much easier. A high-end gamer probably wouldn't be |
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> happy, but my mid-range mainboard happily drove three decent-sized |
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> displays (two DVI and one DP) at their native resolutions. I find the |
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> same to be true on my newer AMD system with built-in Radeon Vega |
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> graphics. It too "just works" with the in-kernel-tree support and |
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> open-source Xorg drivers. |
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By accident rather than design I ended up using mostly Radeon cards over the |
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years. I also had a laptop with Intel graphics. Both intel and radeon have |
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been working without problems with kernel drivers, but I am not a gamer to |
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stress them to their limit. |
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> I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11 screens. The |
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> proprietary NVidia driver supported multiple screens, but the drivers |
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> for built-in Intel and Radeon drivers don't seem to. |
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> -- |
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> Grant |
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AMD APUs with embedded radeon graphics work fine here with two monitors (DVI + |
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HDMI ports). |
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