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Re: Graphic card advice



On 24/06/13 03:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 12:23 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
If you do need more power, I personally would go with AMD a generation
back (OSS drivers). I am not willing to use closed drivers, both for
ideology and for the hassle the create with kernel updates...others
may disagree...

I can't use a transparent xfce4-terminal with

$ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
         ### Available Driver options are:-
         Driver      "radeon"
         #Driver	    "nvidia"
	#Driver	    "nv"
	#Driver     "nouveau"
         #Driver     "vesa"

resp. I can, but it's very slow, when moving the window etc.,
fortunately I don't need transparency. Google Earth is ok.

The proprietary driver doesn't work with current versions of X.

I don't have this issues with NVIDIA.


Probably a timing issue. Both AMD and NVidia do try to get their drivers to match the latest X. It's just that they aren't always quick about it. All the more reason to stick with open source drivers.


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