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

[Dimitris Zervas]

I am not speaking about native linux gaming. Mesa is NOT enough at all.
propriety is needed. But that's not the subject.
I am speaking about GPU passthrough.
Is ATi better supported by Xen or KVM passthrough than nvidia.
On May 3, 2014 8:49 PM, "Laurent Carlier" <lordheavym at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

I am not speaking about native linux gaming. (Mesa is NOT enough at all.
propriety is needed, unless you play cs 1.6. But that's not the subject.)
I am speaking about GPU passthrough.
Is ATi better supported by Xen or KVM *GPU passthrough* than nvidia.
Linux is not involved at all. The "good" card will be passed to windows
through one of the two virtualization solutions.