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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by tomc1985 on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:21PM (#24748779)
Is it? This is the same driver that makes me shut down X and fucks up xorg.conf every time I need to update?
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Re:The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of ... by mistaken on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:55AM (#24753172)
Not to mention that nvidia uses proprietary configuration options even in Xorg.conf. A multi-monitor configuration which works fine in nouveau (or really any other driver) refuses to work with nvidia, because if you use the binary driver you have to set bizarre metamode options to make it work.
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