Re:Regarding EGLStreams Support in KWin
by lmm on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:43AM
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I tried it twice a few years ago. The first time I tried it it just had no support at all for the card (apparently too new); the second time it "worked" but felt pretty flaky, things like locking up much of the time if you tried to switch between X and console. Maybe it's better now - my experiences were bad enough that I swore off AMD for a while. (This was well after the point when their open-source drivers were established and people on HN were telling me they were good, though)
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Re:Regarding EGLStreams Support in KWin
by vetinari on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:00AM
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I have Vega 64 in my desktop, since the non-blower designs became available, and I had no problem with the amdgpu+mesa driver.
It is nice to have it work out of the box.
It is common knowledge that the AMD FOSS drivers nowadays work quite well. Spending a couple of minutes on Phoronix can verify that (they regularly report on such news). You even got multiple drivers to pick from (2 FOSS, 1 proprietary).