My wonderful 8800 GT just died today, so I am looking for a new graphics card.
I heard that AMD's drivers for linux were not that good, so I am wondering if I should avoid their cards because of the bad drivers.
The open source drivers are great.
If you don't care about running games in wine, they're much better than nvidia's driver.
They integrate much better with the kernel and X.org. And they're great for 2d stuff, so just general web browsing, email, etc. They're pretty decent at 3D nowadays too, they can run most native Linux games, but wine is still kind of a problem.
The closed source AMD driver sucks; don't use it.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;22419591]The closed source AMD driver sucks; don't use it.[/QUOTE]
Amen to that
Do the open-source drivers run Compiz well? I don't run games, but I love a 3D desktop.
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;22422029]Do the open-source drivers run Compiz well? I don't run games, but I love a 3D desktop.[/QUOTE]
Yep.
The ati drivers are a travesty. Then to top it off it barely support my old mobility radeon.
The open source version is great despite its inability to run penumbra or world of goo.
Edit: Well I wouldn't say inability. It just rapes my fps.
I don't do a whole lot of gaming so the open source drivers for my mobility radeon 200m are more than good enough for what I do.
I could barely get my HD5870 to work, but I don't think I tried open source drivers.
Can someone give me a name or a link to the open source drivers?
I assume you're using Arch Linux?
The package name is xf86-video-ati
The 3D component is part of the package mesa
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pacman -S xf86-video-ati mesa
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Those would have come preinstalled on Arch anyway, so there's no need to run that.
What's the best driver to install for an AGP Radeon 7000? The open-source drivers leave my colors at 16-bit color. I can tell because my wallpapers look blotchy at gradients.
I think the legacy drivers are used for radeon 7000
Either way, the colors shouldn't look like this... how can I fix it?
install the legacy drivers
Thank you for telling me the name mesa, I was able to find this very useful site.
[url]http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonProgram[/url]
[QUOTE=Pixel Heart;22483253]What's the best driver to install for an AGP Radeon 7000? The open-source drivers leave my colors at 16-bit color. I can tell because my wallpapers look blotchy at gradients.[/QUOTE]
You can verify if it's in 16 bit by doing this:
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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep bpp
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This is what I get on my Radeon 4850:
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gentoobox casey # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep bpp
[ 27.182] (**) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[ 27.182] (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
[ 27.666] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
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[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;22494862]You can verify if it's in 16 bit by doing this:
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cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep bpp
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This is what I get on my Radeon 4850:
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gentoobox casey # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep bpp
[ 27.182] (**) RADEON(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[ 27.182] (II) RADEON(0): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps)
[ 27.666] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
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[img]http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3223/screenshotterminal.png[/img]
it says 24-bit, but i can visually see the difference. i have a few wallpapers just for this purpose.
if it says 24 bit then it is 24 bit
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;22503291]if it says 24 bit then it is 24 bit[/QUOTE]
...but it looks muddy like 16-bit, so what is wrong, and how do i fix it?
screenshot it then,
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give me an example of what it looks like
[QUOTE=ButtsexV2;22504978]screenshot it then,
[editline]07:32AM[/editline]
give me an example of what it looks like[/QUOTE]
The screenshot came out clean, so[B] I'm thinking Linux might not see my LCD correctly?[/B]
This is how my eyes see the gradient on the screen:
[img]http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/9172/061010005942.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/8623/061010005923.jpg[/img]
This is absolutely unacceptable.This is the only system that shows shitty colors like this, my PS3 can show all the colors. So I know the LCD works right and supports the 24-bit depth.
so when you uploaded it, it looked fine on your screen?
I took the screenshot on the machine, put the screenshot on my usbstick, and uploaded it from my laptop... but it looked fine on my laptop, so I don't understand why the LCD looks the way it does. So to show you the muddy looking stuff I'm talking about, i took those two pictures of how it looks on my end, and just deleted the screenshot i took earlier.
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Fuck it, I'm just going to buy a cheap nvidia 6x series card, probably a 128MB 6200. I just need desktop effects and DVI @ 1920x1080, so I don't need a powerful card by any means... just one that displays colors correctly on the LCD.
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