On Sun, 2021-01-17 at 11:31 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:58:33 +0000, "Andrew M.A. Cater" > <amacater@einval.com> wrote: > > Video drivers: we have some basic video modes that work for text mode on > > nearly all cards / embedded chipsets. Other than that, almost everything > > requires a non-free driver. AMD/Intel/Nvidia are all, in their own ways, > > equally bad. Video chipsets change fairly frequently: invariably, newest > > laptops are always a pain. > > I have not needed a single non-free video driver since I ditched the > nVidia Accident that I bought in 2008 to have dual DVI output. > > The only non-free thing I _need_ is network/wifi firmware and > microcode. I do not even know whethre my video cards require firmware > downloads to work. Any recent GPU from AMD, Intel, or Nvidia wants non-free firmware. For AMD hardware the amdgpu driver absolutely requires it; the others might be semi-functional without. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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