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Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC from web-
@widget Nvidia anything is a pain to get working on Linux. ATI/AMD is much better supported.
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 05:54:47 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel Ok, i come on rdn and this is the first thing i see. Since when is ATI better supported on linux? I use linux on an ATI gpu and their driver literally broke ubuntu to the point of reinstallation. Unless theres a third party driver that i dont know about...
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 05:57:45 UTC from web-
@techdisk42 The official drivers are and have always been a joke. Use the free xf86-video-ati driver. Also reinstall your OS because the official drivers infect everything and are pretty much impossible to remove properly.
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 05:59:41 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel Lol after they borked my install before i never installed them again. Im gonna fav that so im reminded to install. Maybe then my laptop will start to work damn properly. The thing heats up like it wants to emulate a furnace running linux, but running windows its all fine and dandy -_-
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 06:02:22 UTC from web-
@techdisk42 Literally the ONLY reason i havent switched to linux completely. I cant stand heat coming off my computer.
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 06:04:47 UTC from web -
@techdisk42 You will want to be sure that you use the gallium version of the mesa driver (either r300g or r600g, depending on which card you have; probably r600g) and make sure you have kernel modesetting enabled properly. I have no idea how feasible any of this is in ubuntu, it may turn out to be significantly more difficult for you than it was for me, so keep that in mind if it ends up not working for you.
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 06:06:38 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel Yeah. Ill look up as much stuff as i can. The only good thing about me using windows for so long is that my linux partition is pretty much blank. I can start from scratch without losing anything.
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 06:09:49 UTC from web-
@techdisk42 Start here http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 06:13:32 UTC from web
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@techdisk42 As for "since when", since a few years ago when AMD bought ATI and started opening up all of the hardware documentation so that said free driver has able to very quickly leap ahead in quality, far surpassing anything nvidia's ever done. I'm currently using a Radeon HD6570 with the free driver and everything works fine. Had to install S3TC to make some stuff work but after that, all is well. Minecraft on max settings, Amnesia, Bastion, etc. And I'd guess the heat is due to your system doing software rendering which is probably taxing your cpu very hard.
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 06:03:55 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel Hm. That would make alot of sense, actually. Watch my compute become perfectly silent the moment those drivers activate. At that point, im highly likely to switch fully to linux, only using windows for stuff that doesnt have the decency to work with linux.
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 06:07:20 UTC from web
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@widget Part of it is just being able to see past the official drivers provided by AMD. The catalyst drivers are indeed horrible and one could easily have the impression that ATI on Linux sucks because of them, but this is really not the case if you know what you're doing.
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 06:12:50 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel In fact, those drivers actually made the graphics worse than the default driver (or lack of one)
Wednesday, 20-Jun-12 06:14:45 UTC from web
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