On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Adrian Smith wrote: > Shortly after I come across the ATIProprietary [2] page. It describes > how to install ATI's proprietary display driver. > > So to my question; what's the difference between the proprietary, > binary-only firmware described in AtiHowto [1] and the AMD proprietary > display driver described in ATIProprietary [2]. Which one should I > use? Is it just a matter of personal preference? Does one offer better > performance over the other?
The ATI proprietary driver is somewhat faster and supports a lot more features, but it is more unstable (note: last time I tried, that means it would seldon crash or do something seriously broken, while the open ones basically never have issues on a R710). Unless you really need it (e.g. you play very heavy 3d games or you need to use the GPU as a compute node), stick to the open drivers. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130919123632.ga1...@khazad-dum.debian.net
