Bug#703179: Live nonfree images don't start x-session on radeon video cards
On 03/25/2013 04:21 PM, Corey Velan wrote:
> Do the prop drivers (nvidia and ati) only increase performance, or are
> there cases where the open source drivers won't let x even start but x
> would start with the prop drivers?
yes :)
the proprietary drivers (nvidia especially) support some bleeding edge
cards that xorg doesn't support. this might not always be true (given
that stable releases tend to have old nvidia drivers) as it's of course
depending on which versions you compare, however, for your use case, you
would want to use nvidia (and kernel) backports anyway to have better
hardware support.
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