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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last rites: x11-drivers/ati-drivers, x11-libs/amd-adl-sdk, x11-libs/xvba-video
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 09:49:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170128094912.71550d12@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan$c54ea$5672c155$5a97726$1627265f@cox.net>

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On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 03:36:26 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:

> (Tho for anyone thinking about it, the rx460, aka polaris11, I purchased, 
> ended up being a poor choice as despite the hardware apparently 
> supporting 3840x2160@60Hz, the freedomware drivers at least, apparently 
> don't yet, so at that resolution I'm stuck at the same 30Hz that I 
> believe I would have been stuck with on the older Turks card, which works 
> better otherwise as the drivers for it have had longer to mature.)

You may have better luck with AMD's "DC" kernel branch.

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linux/log/?h=amd-staging-4.9

This is just as free but not yet mainlined. You can use it with Mesa or
AMDGPU-PRO but I highly recommend the former.

Disclaimer: I haven't tried it myself yet.

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-28  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-27  2:16 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-drivers/ati-drivers, x11-libs/amd-adl-sdk, x11-libs/xvba-video Matt Turner
2017-01-28  3:36 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2017-01-28  4:55   ` Matt Turner
2017-01-28  9:44     ` James Le Cuirot
2017-01-28  9:49   ` James Le Cuirot [this message]

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