On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 04:57 -0500, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2016 5:11 PM, "Zlatan Todoric" <zla...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > > So I think it is very important that we support AMD right now on what we > > > can, and ask manufacturers to include AMD graphics in those products. > > > > > > > You do realize that AMD graphics need proprietary firmware to have > > proper 3D acceleration without which you probably couldn't run any game > > at all - so goodbye Libre graphics. > > > Besides that, AMD's fglrx require X to be running in order to run while nVidia > does not (kinda sucks if you have a bunch of 8 card nodes using the cards for > scientific applications). Also, in this setting, there were a lot more issues > with AMD than nVidia (soft crashes, hard crashes, cards going offline until > reboot). > I'm not a big gamer, so maybe there are less issues with AMD in this setting. > And I'd be thrilled if either fglrx or nv were OSS (would weigh heavily on > purchasing decisions). However, because AMD really pissed me off here, I had > to say something here.
Well, I don't think the issue is about the non-free driver fglrx, but the open source radeon drivers. fglrx is as bad as the nVidia non-free ones. BTW: nv is OSS (Open Source Software), however with limited performance due to lacking open documentation of the nVidia graphics hardware. The closed firmware issue is another story...
