NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti with Maxwell GPU in February

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

a further post because it might give you a giggle. Here was the use case that drove my trying to install the catalyst drivers...

The pc is at the back of the garage, on top of the desk, and my fingers were cold. I figured "if i plug in that 4670 and run a litecoin miner, it should blow a gentle 70w breeze over my fingers. Much better than using the fan heater as i don't want to heat the whole garage."

given that won't work, i shall pull the card and drop back to the motherboard graphics, and try and find some gloves with holes for the fingers :d

lol!

[Biscuit]

Even on newish AMD Cards, if you are not going for Ubuntu which has has tools to make the process simpler, getting the most recent AMD driver installed can be a seriously steep learning curve.
I think the AMD support on linux has improved but that only highlights how bad it was rather than say much about the current support.

[scaryjim]

... "If I plug in that 4670 and run a litecoin miner, it should blow a gentle 70W breeze over my fingers. Much better than using the fan heater as I don't want to heat the whole garage." ...

Better yet grab a second hand GTX480 and fold on it - more heat, *and* you're helping cure cancer (honest guv).

[DanceswithUnix]

Perhaps AMD are concentrating on LTS solutions first? Presumably their primary focus will be SteamOS. Just because things aren't improving for you doesn't mean they're not improving. It's not like fragmentation is an unknown problem in *n?x land. That said, I'm kind of sad that AMD haven't gone proactive on the open source linux driver since SteamOS was announced - would've been a good way to demonstrate their openness and they could definitely be doing more. OTOH, if Linux users care about having a choice of hardware vendors, they could always complete the Linux Crew driver survey and give AMD some feedback...



Then perhaps your problem isn't AMD's linux support, but their desktop card support? I may be reading you wrong, but it sounds like you're expecting a level of support for a particular card on Linux that you wouldn't expect on Windows. If your usage and hardware lifecycles are different, why use the same hardware...?

The problem people are complaining about is the quality and frequency of the Linux driver releases from AMD. Stuff breaks, that's fine, but not if it takes 6 months to fix. The words I would emphasize from my post above are the impression I got that "no-one wants to deal with AMD". I hope that if I dug deeper that would turn out wrong, but impressions can be important and they still have that image after years of saying they are improving this stuff.

And yes I am abusing Windows hardware, but generally speaking in Linux I find that works very nicely and stuff just works. The open source driver should work fine for basic video use (let's face it I am not expecting performance with an old card) so I should get another 5 years out of it with that usage.

Thanks for the feedback link, will have a play with that this evening.

Better yet grab a second hand GTX480 and fold on it - more heat, *and* you're helping cure cancer (honest guv).

I want to warm my fingers, not burn them

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

More performance figures:

http://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/diy/51108400.html
http://www.chiphell.com/thread-954560-1-1.html
http://translate.google.com/translat...rjning&act=url