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0 pointsg_p5y ago0 comments

On the discrete GPU front, most AMD users will be using FOSS drivers that are built into the kernel, plus the standard open source Mesa.

In fact, AMD actively recommend you use the open source ones. I think the community radv vulkan driver also outperforms anything proprietary they offer.

Nvidia still requires proprietary out-of-tree drivers and causes breakage every so often, but AMD is just like Intel integrated graphics now. Never tried it with an AMD APU, but I would hope it would be the same with the open source amdgpu driver.

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pjmlp5y ago

> Never tried it with an AMD APU, but I would hope it would be the same with the open source amdgpu driver.

It is a big regression that won't ever be fixed, OpenGL 3.3 instead of OpenGL 4.1 and barely working hardware video decoding.

Yep, it is a 10 years old hardware, yet Windows 10 drivers are perfectly capable of handling it properly.

3np5y ago

I did have some issues with getting proper utilization of a 3000-series APU on Debian stable. Eventually got it working but it did requires mesa > 20.1 and some specific version/params in kernel (can't recall exactly what did it).

anthk5y ago

If you use Debian Stable, set the backports repo as 9999 priority and then upgrade everything.

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