[arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

Laurent Carlier lordheavym at gmail.com
Sat May 3 13:49:01 EDT 2014


Le samedi 3 mai 2014, 10:35:24 Ryan Capote a écrit :
> AMD cards are not very well supported under Arch. I use an AMD card and
> have to use Vi0l0's unofficial repository for the latest catalyst drivers,
> as they are not available from the official repository. Occasionally an
> update will break the driver and I have to recompile the kernel module.
> Other then that, the quality of the drivers is OK. Games run noticeably
> smoother in Windows than under Linux, I don't know if that's a driver issue
> or games/engine not being optimized under Linux.
> 

ATI cards are very well supported on Arch, crappy software not!

Mesa drivers are enough to play games under linux, have less pain with kernel 
or xserver upgrades.

-- 
Laurent Carlier
ArchLinux Developer
http://www.archlinux.org
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