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I consider myself a very technically able person and I can learn new things pretty quickly. I have mint set up and everything is going great. I expected to see a drop in performance when gaming on linux.. especially on AMD.
The question I have is about AMD drivers. From what I gather the opensource xorg is better for 2d and the proprietary amd drivers are better for gaming.
I hear about other things such as combining the opensource and amd driver or MESA?!
Can anyone explain this to me :) I currently use the AMD proprietary 15.7 driver.
Thanks
The way I have interpreted it is that the proprietary components aren't really working with the Mesa drivers but they co-exist on the same kernel driver and Catalyst is isolated into user-space. I think that could improve stability on Catalyst because if it goes down it shouldn't take the whole kernel with it.
From user's point of view I assume not much is going to change. It will probably make maintaining the driver a bit easier for the AMD devs so they could maybe put more resources towards optimizing the Catalyst component.
So I want to know what is the best driver for my requirements and card.
Thanks
Hopefully they will catch windows someday. Although I must admit I am tempted to go nvidia... But then I can't really support open source.
How do I add mesa to the catalyst driver?
Thanks
You don't add mesa to it, mesa is the open source driver.
your card is supported by the open source driver, historically the difference between the closed source and open source was significant, but the performance difference has steadily been shrinking
i think it is worth a try with the open source driver - if it does not work you can always revert back to the closed source driver.
I cant wait until the drivers mature more as I really want to use amd on linux as my main gaming platform. Its just not completely viable yet due the massive loss in performance over windows. Amazing work all the same and great progress.