[elrepo] Question about nvidia/radeon

[Maarten]

Thanks! :)

Seems like here I can find info about the opensource for radeon drivers:
https://wiki.freedesktop.org/xorg/RadeonFeature . It

doesn't mention any RX cards there yet. So I should be just fine using
the kmod-fglrx driver from elrepo if I were

to buy the Radeon RX580?


On 08/23/2017 11:42 AM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 08/23/2017 12:21 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> On 08/23/2017 10:09 AM, Maarten wrote:
>>> No I don't have software in my lab that use CUDA acceleration, and no
>>> software this is able to use CUDA acceleration.
>>>
>>
>> Nvidia's proprietary drivers are also offered by ElRepo in a format
>> better suited for RHEL and derivatives (compared to what NVidia
>> provides directly) and Phil does a great job in keeping them updated.
>> I maintain the ElRepo packages for the older drivers from ATI (
>> suitable among others for the graphic chips included in their APUs )
>> and AFAIK there are no issues with them in EL6. For EL7 there are
>> some known issues because I was not able to do a better job, due to
>> lack of hardware (and time.. ) to test on. The new drivers ( needed
>> for their newest chipsets ) are provided in a format which makes life
>> difficult for whoever tries to repackage them... so I did not even
>> try to do that.
>>
>>
>> As a bottom line, based on what you described as needs, just pick
>> whichever you like. Both NVidia and ATI have pretty good opensource
>> drivers. Take into account what tasks you want the card for, I doubt
>> that you will not need the proprietary drivers.
>>
> Oh well, my keyboard had a bit of a stutter. Read that last phrase as
> "Taking into account what tasks you want the card for, I doubt that
> you would need the proprietary drivers."
>
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