[LAU] AMD graphics card

[Will Godfrey]

On Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:46:12 -0600
"Chris Caudle" <chris at chriscaudle.org> wrote:

>On Fri, January 12, 2018 7:48 am, Will Godfrey wrote:
>> So, I'm now on kernel 14.4.7 :)  
>
>I think that was a typo, I assume it is 4.14.7.

Indeed _ I'm sure somebody moves things around on this keyboard when I'm not
looking!

>I am currently running 4.14.12 modified with the RT patches installed (the
>kernel provided for Fedora 27 by the CCRMA repository), and it is running
>quite fine with an Asus HD5450 card.
>That series of cards uses the older radeon driver and was previously
>broken for a few releases around the 4.11.x time frame, at least in the
>Fedora 26 kernels.  I do not think Fedora modifies the graphics drivers,
>so I suspect that a regression with the older cards crept into the
>mainline at some point and was corrected in later kernels after it was
>noticed.
>
>I pulled the HD5450 card from a machine retired recently, I have been
>running a newer RX 460 card which uses the amdgpu driver (which replaced
>the radeon driver for AMD GPU for the latest generation devices).  The
>newer card was prompted primarily by my kids who wanted better graphics
>for Minecraft, but with the working driver I do not see any noticeable
>difference in desktop use with a browser, playing youtube videos, etc. 
>The HD5450 is single width vs. dual width, passive heat sink vs. fan heat
>sink, and lower power.  I can recommend it for anything not involving 3D
>graphics, I used it for several years with no problems until the driver
>regression in the 4.11.x series of kernels, which as far as I can tell is
>completely corrected with the 4.14 kernel I am currently running.
>

OK, that's good news indeed. Thanks for the info, that's one more unknown
scratched off the list :)

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