Quoting: goldenkAt least Nvidia is doing something.

Yeah what they're doing is getting their ass whooped by AMD in the GPU space on Linux XD :D

Quoting: MayeulCElectricPrism: hum... say, what would happen to the old GPU? :P I often encounter hangs, and I suspect my R9 Fury is to blame, perhaps due to its old age?

Edit: and forgot to type in my other replies...

The story, first: let's not throw the baby together with the bathwater. Any progress on that front is good progress. Nevertheless, they'd have to do a lot more before impresssing me and having me consider one of their GPUs.

I have a big family and I often donate GPU's to family members -- like my GTX 970s -- one I donated and the other is in my Dan A4-SFX Steam Machine, my main 2 rigs are VEGA 64 and I have a RX 480 in a different Work PC and RX 580 in another SFX build.

So I basically try to circulate hardware to encourage a "Good Linux Experience" and I am obsoleting my Nvidia cards slowly.

I did notice some GPU overheating issues which I fixed by changing the fan curve to linear in CoreCTL for AMD VEGA GPU's. (I'm on a reference cooler unfortunately I couldn't justify the extra $100-200/ea) and my GPU is next to my CPU heat stack kindof close.

The other "freeze" or hang issue I may have experienced may be related to GPU OOM after 1 hour Dota 2 games sometimes there is a freeze but it probably was just a cooling issue since I didn't have any fans plugged in for a bit.

Other than that, RX 4XX and 5XX are the most stable, VEGA is 1st gen so it's been a little bumpy but still worth the upgrade and maybe slightly less tested because of how expensive it was during the mining craze, and I am thinking and hoping to get rid of some of the 1st gen problems just be switching to a new card like Navi or VII or similar but I hear the memory bandwidth of VEGA is still really great.

I scored a killer deal last year on Black Friday and got $900 AMD CPU's -- 16 cores 32 threads for $450/ea but then had to do custom motherboard TR4 $300 and custom CPU cooling $90 with 2 large fans $40, it's absolutely amazing -- I can compile the kernel in minuets it makes me consider trying Gentoo even.

It feels good to put your money where your mouth is, AMD has earned it. I like to think my money goes to investing in Linux and indirectly I'm sure -- it does. It shows companies that the open source model can work.

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Quoting: RussianNeuroMancer

Quoting: ShmerlImprovement, but far from enough to make Nouveau work properly.

They don't need Nouveau to work properly, they need Nouveau to work enough to justify keeping certain kernel interfaces in place, to prevent cases like this one [External Link].

IBM developer Alexey Kardashevskiy did warn that this particular code is "heavily" used by NVIDIA's graphics driver. Hellwig responded though that "Not by the [driver / code] that actually exists in the kernel tree, so it simply doesn't matter."

That's fucking hilarious! So because Nvidia insisted on having a closed binary blob in their backyard Sandbox and not coming to the Community Sandbox, the community saw no reason to shoulder the burden of maintaining old code that Nvidia's sandbox depends on.

This is yet another reason why you develop such critical low level critical components in the open. I had a shitty experience on GTX 970 (My last Nvidia GPU) and it looks like more users are about to have a shitty time on Nvidia due to their poor foresight.

edit: Reading this whole fiasco makes me want to upgrade my AMD VEGA 64 to a AMD Radeon VII or Navi 5700 XT

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Someone check the weather in hell, as NVIDIA seem to be opening themselves up a bit more with the release of some GPU documentation.

Indeed.

I used to be a full nvidia customer for at least 10+ years.

Then AMD did such an amazing job with their Open Source MESA Linux Driver. I switched. AMD earned my loyalty and in exchange I have built at least 6+ full AMD rigs in the last 2 years alone. Now I am looking to exclusively do AMD in laptops too because the Linux Drivers are so much better than Nvidia and more performant than Intel.

As it stands currently, AMD is a superior experience on Linux because the open source driver makes everything stable as software marches forward.

NVIDIA -- you are late to the race, AMD and Intel have already finished the open-source race. You have a lot of work to do before we are swayed to even consider your products again.

Edit:

It goes back to at least 2012 when they said they would release more docs while now it appears they are living up to that promise for helping Nouveau. -- Phoronix

Jesus Christ! Am I to understand it took 7 years for them to even begin to deliver progress on this task? They're going to have to do better than that! I want to see current-gen documentation delivered in this Fiscal Quarter. Unacceptable, at this speed I will sooner see them dethroned.

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I honestly lol inside a little bit from all the shit KDE fanboys give Gnome seeing this crop up.

I like KDE and KDE devs but as a Arch user KDE users have a lot of the "btw I use KDE" going on, except throw in a "and GNOME sucks!"

So if you are one of those people this is for you:

Haha!

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This looks like it would be a VR game, stylistically it reminds me of System Shock 2, Halo 1 & 2 and a little bit of Portal, very bizare but definitely going to wishlist it and take a closer look.

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AMD or no

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Quoting: PatolaThis is the year of Linux on the VR desktop.
Now to sell my house to buy a cheap used Valve Index kit...

When you ascend to your VR glory, may I come visit your VR house in my VR glory and we can have a cup of VR tea and IR coffee?

I mean like a house could cost hundreds of thousands or millions, a VR kit is only like a thousand bucks.

Edit: I hope someone makes TRON world so we can finally have a visualization.

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I love this game but man I wish I didn't get my ass kicked so hard when I play, I'm pretty decent at other FPS but that Unreal 2000 style FPS is a beast of its own.

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Eh.

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d00d looks awesome! Will follow for sure

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