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Valve launches SteamOSValve launches SteamOSPosted Sep 24, 2013 9:16 UTC (Tue) by Otus (guest, #67685)In reply to: Valve launches SteamOS by AndreiG Parent article: Valve launches SteamOS
> Sorry for the rant, I've been using Nvidia cards for a while and I always
> assumed that the horror stories about fglrx are a tad bit exaggerated, > but, after a week with my new A10 I see there is much truth to the said > horror stories. :(
It's the same as Nvidia binary drivers, IME: either everything works fine, or pretty much nothing does. Your luck depends on which part you buy and when.
My Radeon HD 4850 and HD 7770 have both worked with no problems using fglrx (although I moved to the open drivers for 4850 when they matured). The "HD 6310" in my APU didn't work at all the first few fglrx versions (no display output on some boots, no suspend, hibernate or video acceleration), but recently started working.
Likewise, I had loads of problems trying to use an Nvidia iGPU (8300?) a few years ago, both with their binary drivers and the open ones. These days it just works with nouveau (although I have no idea about performance).
My small sample size (some data points in addition to the above) suggests integrated and mobile are much less likely to work, while discrete desktop GPUs are usually fine.
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Valve launches SteamOS Posted Sep 24, 2013 17:32 UTC (Tue) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]
I have a policy of buying new computers from ZaReason, which avoids such hassles with poorly supported graphic cards. Buying from Think Penguin or System76 also would work for this purpose. Even if you buy just the base system from them, you can note what graphics cards were available as addons and pick up one of those later, knowing that decent Linux drivers exist.
I've helped other people who come to LUG Q&A sessions fight through graphics problems, so I know they still exist on random hardware that came with windows pre-installed, but my own gaming rig bought with the above strategy has worked great despite having a (discrete) radeon.
Valve launches SteamOS Posted Sep 25, 2013 11:25 UTC (Wed) by AndreiG (guest, #90359) [Link]
OK, I'm hijacking the thread :
There is no excuse for AMD's binary blob to work with their discrete GPUs - I borrowed a HD7750 and it works ok - but not with their integrated GPU in the A10. Technically it's a 6xxx series GPU slapped on the same die as the CPU cores. It is not an entirely different architecture from outer space.
They can make drivers for Mac OS X that work flawlessly with 6xxx-series cards in iMacs but not for Linux ?
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