Hello,
I recently bought a brand new AMD APU A8-7600 (released in july), with integrated graphics Radeon R7. I wasn't able to start or install openSUSE 13.1 with this APU, since it is not recognized by this "old" version. In fact, I it seems that Linux support for this APU is rather difficult at the moment.
If we want to install the AMD proprietary driver, the only one available is the Catalyst 14.6 Beta we can download on AMD website, released in july as well. But it's rather heavy bugged, and above all it won't work on openSUSE 13.2 since it doesn't support a linux kernel > 3.13 (and openSUSE 13.2 will come with kernel 3.17). So, I guess that the fglrx package which will be available for openSUSE 13.2 will be either bugged (if based on Catalyst 14.6 Beta) or not convenient for latest APUs (if based on 14.4).
So, do you know anything about the free radeon driver which will be included in openSUSE 13.2 ?
1) Does it offer a good support of the latest AMD APUs ?
2) I heard that the free radeon drivers were now very close to the AMD proprietary driver, for performance as well as for features support (hardware acceleration / direct rendering, etc.). Do you think it's possible to play recent games in decent conditions with it ?
3) What about PlayOnLinux support with the free driver ? If we just install the mesa package(s), does it offer a complete OpenGL support ? So far I always got an error message ("Playonlinux can't find OpenGL librairies") if the proprietary drivers were not installed...
In fact, to be clear, can I hope a good Linux support for my hardware in the next months, or should I rather buy a little (and "old") video card in order to avoid any problem ?
Thanks ;)
I recently bought a brand new AMD APU A8-7600 (released in july), with integrated graphics Radeon R7. I wasn't able to start or install openSUSE 13.1 with this APU, since it is not recognized by this "old" version. In fact, I it seems that Linux support for this APU is rather difficult at the moment.
If we want to install the AMD proprietary driver, the only one available is the Catalyst 14.6 Beta we can download on AMD website, released in july as well. But it's rather heavy bugged, and above all it won't work on openSUSE 13.2 since it doesn't support a linux kernel > 3.13 (and openSUSE 13.2 will come with kernel 3.17). So, I guess that the fglrx package which will be available for openSUSE 13.2 will be either bugged (if based on Catalyst 14.6 Beta) or not convenient for latest APUs (if based on 14.4).
So, do you know anything about the free radeon driver which will be included in openSUSE 13.2 ?
1) Does it offer a good support of the latest AMD APUs ?
2) I heard that the free radeon drivers were now very close to the AMD proprietary driver, for performance as well as for features support (hardware acceleration / direct rendering, etc.). Do you think it's possible to play recent games in decent conditions with it ?
3) What about PlayOnLinux support with the free driver ? If we just install the mesa package(s), does it offer a complete OpenGL support ? So far I always got an error message ("Playonlinux can't find OpenGL librairies") if the proprietary drivers were not installed...
In fact, to be clear, can I hope a good Linux support for my hardware in the next months, or should I rather buy a little (and "old") video card in order to avoid any problem ?
Thanks ;)