Re: Nouveau crashes
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 07:12:01 -0500
Javier Perez <pepebuho(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My question is this. If I change to Radeon, how is the experience
with
those cards? Is the linux driver for these cards fine?
I am not a heavy game player, mostly web browsing, and lately FreeCAD,
Meshmixer though wine, PlayonLinux, user. Probably will get into
Blender, therefore I might need a good video card, but not something
top notch, I think.
I used to have nvidia, and the intermittent lockup of the nouveau driver
was one of my irritants. I compile my own kernel using the Fedora test
kernels, so using nvidia's binary blob was problematic.
I switched to an older radeon, and it just works. I can't remember the
last time I had a video issue. But, I think I am even less demanding
of my video card than you are, so it might be an issue for you if you
use a newer, and more powerful, card. I think they use a different
driver than the radeon driver I use (amdgpu?).
I think that AMD publishes the API of their cards, while nvidia
doesn't, so the AMD cards open source drivers aren't reverse
engineered, while nouveau has to be because of that. Thus the nouveau
glitches.
I recently saw an article that the video performance of intel graphics
has taken a big leap forward with the latest generation. The graphs of
performance in that article looked like double or more of older
generations.