Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2022-11-21, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I did re-emerge the nvidia drivers for the old kernel. [...]
> > 
> > If I get bored, and it warms up a little, I may build a 5.19 kernel. 
> > Thing is, by the time I get around to rebooting, nvidia may have updated
> > and the new one I already got will work.  :/
> 
> About 15 years ago, after a bad experience with ATI dropping Linux
> driver support for a card that was only a year old (and no luck
> getting the open source driver to work reliably), 

I had a similar experience about the same time, ATI proprietary drivers 
stopped working and the kernel driver was performing poorly - tearing when 
playing videos, etc.  Within a few months the kernel driver improved 
significantly and saved me the cost of buying another graphics card.


> I switched to NVidia
> (mostly Qaudro cards -- fanless until that ceased to be an
> option). They always worked great using the NVidia blob drivers, but
> using NVidia drivers was a constant source of minor pain. Often kernel
> updates had to be postponed until NVidia driver support caught up, and
> they too dropped support and forced me to replace a board that was
> still working perfectly.
> 
> Eventually, I just gave up and started using built-in Intel
> graphics. Life was much easier. A high-end gamer probably wouldn't be
> happy, but my mid-range mainboard happily drove three decent-sized
> displays (two DVI and one DP) at their native resolutions. I find the
> same to be true on my newer AMD system with built-in Radeon Vega
> graphics. It too "just works" with the in-kernel-tree support and
> open-source Xorg drivers.

By accident rather than design I ended up using mostly Radeon cards over the 
years.  I also had a laptop with Intel graphics.  Both intel and radeon have 
been working without problems with kernel drivers, but I am not a gamer to 
stress them to their limit.


> I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11 screens. The
> proprietary NVidia driver supported multiple screens, but the drivers
> for built-in Intel and Radeon drivers don't seem to.
> 
> --
> Grant

AMD APUs with embedded radeon graphics work fine here with two monitors (DVI + 
HDMI ports).

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