On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Peter Laws plaws@ou.edu wrote:
But I can confirm that the AMD drivers aren't very good. The problem with konsole exists when I run Opera, too, in addition to Chrome. And I'm really tired of Firefox. :-)
Oh, and while on the topic ... When this system is replaced, which graphics card should I get? I am NOT a heavy user of the video capabilities of any card, just want something that Just Works. :-)
-- Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center University of Oklahoma Information Technology plaws@ou.edu
Peter Laws composed on 2017-04-21 12:58 (UTC-0500):
Peter Laws wrote:
But I can confirm that the AMD drivers aren't very good. The problem with konsole exists when I run Opera, too, in addition to Chrome. And I'm really tired of Firefox. :-)
Oh, and while on the topic ... When this system is replaced, which graphics card should I get? I am NOT a heavy user of the video capabilities of any card, just want something that Just Works. :-)
I have multiple TDE installations on multiple distros using various aged ATI, Intel and NVidia gfxcards, all of which "just work" with TDE using FOSS video drivers exclusively. Proprietary drivers, requiring proprietary tools and manual intervention to install, remove and maintain, are anathema to categorization as "just working".
If there's any one important characteristic for choosing a "just works" gfxcard for Linux, it's making sure it is not a design or model that was initially introduced within 9-12 months or so before the release of your distro.
On 04/21/2017 12:58 PM, Peter Laws wrote:
Oh, and while on the topic ... When this system is replaced, which graphics card should I get? I am NOT a heavy user of the video capabilities of any card, just want something that Just Works. :-)
Peter,
As Felix indicates, any video card Intel, AMD or Nvidia would be fine. In fact, the actual video "just working" has very little to do with TDE (or any desktop for that matter). Whether it works with X (or Wayland) is the crux of the issue. Having run numerous versions of Intel, AMD, Nvidia (and save us Matrox), I can only think of one laptop ATI card that has had actual X issues (that have gone unfixed) in the past 18 years. (specifically the [AMD/ATI] RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270] model)
If you are having problems is desktop display performance, then the more likely culprits are LOCALE settings and font configuration (as well as various tweaks to apps like firefox in about:config that can make this crystal clear)
For example, on servers, I generally use ancient card (fanless, no noise, etc.) and the X-window graphic performance is great, e.g. an [AMD/ATI] RV370 [Radeon X300 SE] (circa. 2006?) works fine.
As to a direct answer to your question, all desktop cards (within reason) should "just work", as for laptops, a general consensus is Intel cards "just work" and of all the laptop cards I've tried, all just worked except for the RS690M, and that just worked up until the last shift in X that occurred a couple of years ago.
Look into the font config and make sure your LOCALE, etc. are properly configured, and I wouldn't be surprised if most of your display issues went away.
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