Proprietary Drivers vs Open Source | nVidia vs AMD

[@Noxeus1996]

Correction: you can add a non-free repository to your package manager to automatically update your proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

[@ericr5481]

The first distro I used was Fedora and ran into the nVidia driver headache. Then discovered that Ubuntu based distros include nVidia driver based packages. I since switched to Pop!_OS

[@ivailogeimara]

Also on ArchLinux the proprietary Nvidia drivers are in the official repos. And in the most popular distros the drivers are either in the repos or in ppa or there is some option to install proprietary drivers in some menu. On Fedora I see they're in RPM Fusion repo (never tried installing on Fedora).

[@TromboneSteve]

I installed my Nvidia driver with the PPA because the proprietary driver that comes installed with Linux Mint is several versions behind. The PPA is up to date

[@uumas8427]

Yeah, basically everything has Nvidia drivers in some repos. At least debian, ubuntu, arch and fedora.

[@tiwosatriatama]

@@anonym34566 > if only nvidia had open source driver Sadly, it's even almost impossible

[@mr_beezlebub3985]

The AMD open source graphics were very easy to get set up. I’m glad I decided to get a Vega 56 for Linux gaming.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Vega 64 here and I love it as well

[@a12dhie]

I just bought RX 580 8GB for $62 on used market and I'm really happy with the performance so far, I played older titles like Metro series, Half life 2, BioShock, and etc which still runs smoothly even on 4K for some games, the best thing is I don't need to install any driver whatsoever, it's just works 😁

[@jonspoonamore3721]

Yet another reason I love running Manjaro these days. Update Manager (PAMAC) updates my Nvidia Drivers automatically. Thanks to the Manjaro Team for keeping most of their software and hardware drivers updated 100% of the time.

[@raphael2407]

so does Arch and pretty much any Arch based distribution :)

[@jonspoonamore3721]

@@raphael2407 I'm too lazy to setup Arch manually. I have too many flashbacks of setting up Slackware from the late 90's. LOL!!! Bring me automation.... Bring me Manjaro. My worst fear is one day Arch goes the way of Ubuntu/Canonical.... CORPORATE and totally ruin the distro!!! AHAHAHHAHAAA!!!!!

[@Xeno_Bardock]

On Linux Mint and Ubuntu, you simply copy/paste PPA and install drivers, all in GUI, no terminal needed. Software Sources and Driver Manager in Linux Mint, Software & Updates > Other Software and Additional Drivers tabs in Ubuntu. Same with Manjaro in Manjaro Settings Manager > Hardware Configuration. You don't need to download the Nvidia .run file from their website.

[@Mrlultime]

On Arch or Manjaro, with an nVidia card, you install the package. Simple as that. You don't have to go on their website. Except you might have to use Compton as a compositor with XFCE to avoid screen tearing, which is pretty dumb, but works. I don't like their proprietary driver, but the truth is, it fits the needs of most people. My advice is : choose a product, not a brand.

[@kittenwizard4703]

The drivers themselves are easy to install, everything those drivers break on your system is hard to fix and why everyone hates it

[@SwiatLinuksa]

I recommend Radeon-Profile from GIT ( maramista or Marazamista). Fantastic tool to manage your Radeon GPU. Custom fun curve ( 0% rpm work), OC can be done, Undervolting not yet implemented, full info about your card, graphic GPU usage real-time, power states manage, no root required, has emergency GPU manage, daemon in background! Very recommend it!

[@georgepetrakis7703]

Does this work with newer 5600XT and 5700XT cards?

[@dxfvgyhjh]

undervolting not implemented? what are they waiting that's a must

[@KarlHansson]

I’ve tried Linux a few times over the years and where it ALWAYS fell down for me was crappy graphics drivers. So this is good news for me, and I am using AMD graphics 😊.

[@naasthikan]

It's still not good

[@louistournas120]

But how good are the AMD Linux drivers compared to the AMD Windows drivers?

[@JanSteen7870]

Manjaro let you choose during install to use proprietary drivers for Nvidia. And keeps it up to date. Opensuse you add the Nvidia repo, and you install the driver once, and Tumbleweed keeps it up to date. And I am sure that other distro' s have similar solutions. Don't download drivers from the web, al lot of distro' s have a very simple solution if you want to use proprietary drivers.

[@limonhasan6723]

@Rajesh Singh boot with proprietary drivers

[@BruceBigby]

Chris, for NVidia on at least Fedora, using a run file to install a driver is an option, yes, but users have only had to do that when the standard repos had not yet packaged the very latest NVidia driver. I have been using NVidia since 2001, and I've always installed drivers via a repository. Only a few times did I use the NVidia run installer for special cases. Although I replaced the NVidia card in my desktop with an AMD Radeon RX 590, I still have a laptop with NVidia. I run Nouveau on that, because the proprietary driver for that card became legacy before NVidia updated their driver architecture to make integration with the Linux kernel more seamless. Consequently, one day when I upgraded my kernel, the new Linux GPU driver architecture arrived, but it didn't support my card, and Fedora couldn't upgrade my driver and my current driver needed to be rebuilt, but I couldn't enter graphical mode, and couldn't determine how to fix it easily, so I reinstalled Fedora and left it to use the default Nouvea, which is fine, because I don't run games on it anymore. Regardless, there's no need to use a run file to install NVidia drivers. There rarely has EVER been a reason for it.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Thanks Bruce, This is really good to know. Nouveau will get most users a functioning desktop but if you run games, you will need the proprietary driver. The nVidia open source driver is trash when it comes to performance.

[@mrmasterofdiabloplay]

I would say that is true in fedora, Ubuntu, or Manjaro. However if your not running a mainline distro, they may not have those in the repository. That is what the RUN files are for.

[@BruceBigby]

@@ChrisTitusTech Yes. Nouveau is okay for most basic games, but you need the NVidia proprietary driver for more demanding 3D software. By the way, I'm loving my AMD RX 590. I thought about buying one of the higher performing AMD cards, but I couldn't justify it for my use cases, but I'm really happy that AMD is competing on ALL fronts in a HUGE way!

[@BruceBigby]

@@mrmasterofdiabloplay Yes, perhaps some distributions might not have a repo for installing NVidia drivers. I've never run one of them in 18 years since I've been using NVidia.

[@mrmasterofdiabloplay]

I'm glad you brought up Mesa, Because that is how the AMD driver updates in the kernel.. You had me worried for a second. LOL. This is where I suggest Ubuntu and POP OS etc POP OS installs the NVIDIA driver for you and adds the NVIDIA nonfree repository for you and the other ISO adds MESA for the AMD/Intel GPUs (Vanilla Ubuntu you have to add the ppa yourself) Also MESA requires the Vulkan runtime libraries too. I know I made that mistake the first time trying to run DXVK, I had some really weird shit happen

[@adityaimamw]

I still wondering can we do some graphics card overclocking in linux? because we can do some graphics card overclocking in windows (like using msi afterburner).

[@mrmasterofdiabloplay]

NVIDIA made an overclocking tool for Linux, and I think in some cards you may be able to do it in the control panel (don't quote me on that because I don't use an NVIDA ). However AMD is a little more complex but here are some resources for you: linuxconfig.org/overclock-your-radeon-gpu-with-amdgpu www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/agwroj/how_to_overclock_your_amd_gpu_on_linux/

[@remissio42]

Yes you can overclock them. You can find some information about it within the archlinux wiki about nvidia and amd.

[@rhekman]

Yes nvidia cards can be overclocked. wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks#Enabling_overclocking for more info. To unlock: /etc/X11/xorg.conf should have the lines: Section "Device" Option "Coolbits" "28" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Then there are GUI tools you can use to actually set the clocks, or you can use "nvidia-settings" (included with the nvidia driver) from the command line. For my GTX960 I use: nvidia-smi -i 0 -pl 216 (power limit to 216 watts) nvidia-settings -a '[gpu:0]/GPUGraphicsClockOffset[3]=140' nvidia-settings -a '[gpu:0]/GPUMemoryTransferRateOffset[3]=1050' nvidia-settings -a '[gpu:0]/GPUOvervoltageOffset[3]=50000' Please note the appropriate overclock values will vary by GPU and board maker. e.g. I had to use "50000" to get 50 millivolts overvoltage, and the VRAM clock offset in Windows/Afterburner was half that in Linux (525 vs 1050).

[@pauldufresne3650]

For Ubuntu (probably Mint too), I suggest "you Go to Software & Updates -> Additional Drivers", once yours drivers are installed, reboot. This can be called on command prompt with "sudo ubuntu-drivers devices". Taken from help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto and help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia This will let you choose which version of the Nvidia drivers you need to install for your older cards (as older cards are not supported anymore by latest version). This will also ensure to update the graphic driver when a new kernel is upgraded by the package manager.

[@louistournas120]

and that's the sweetest way to do it.

[@Autotrope]

NVIDIA Linux drivers are high quality. If you can get past the ideological hurdle of them not being open source, the technical hurdles aren't great. Distros package them in an easy to install manner, even Debian. Distributions tend to recommend against getting the binaries direct from NVIDIA (the .run file) because it makes it harder to upgrade them, can make kernel upgrades harder, you can run into conflicts, etc. You're doing it on hard mode if you do it that way. Honestly, apart from not being open source NVIDIA Linux drivers have been great and just work.

[@shubhammehra6022]

Will the mesa drivers automatically update themselves to the latest version or i have to update the kernel ?

[@d3stinYwOw]

Amdgpu-pro is just extension for Amdgpu open source driver. Fglrx sucked, not amdgpu-pro.

[@pfeerick]

In addition to the non-free repository you can add to your package manager in most distros so you get the proprietary NVIDA drivers, Manjaro asks you when you install it if you want the proprietary drivers, and then keeps them up to day, they're in the official repos on Arch, and Ubuntu 19.10 will also include the proprietary drivers on the ISO... so it's going to be pretty equal standing again in no time as far getting them working.

[@kumar-jatin-2000]

I am running a AMD 2500u laptop with integrated Vega 8 graphics I've installed "amdgpu" drivers, but I'm facing some performance issues on video playback on KZbin. CPU usage jumps up to 60-70%. It never happened in windows, looks like it isn't using hardware acceleration for decoding videos. I don't play games, so haven't checked out gaming performance. Should I switch to AMD GPU Pro?

[@georgepetrakis7703]

I just bought a Sapphire Pulse 5600XT. It works out of the box with open source drivers. Unfortunately there is no control panel/app like the proprietary app in Windows. There is no easy way to control the GPU's hardware features.

[@iamthat7351]

I am trying to Install Adrenaline 2020 Raedon software on PopOS. Do you have an links or tutorials I can follow? Much appreciated

[@nivandrew4201]

Ok, but what about Navi cards and open-source drivers now? I've heard people stuck on a lot of problems with 5700 and 5700XT running them on linux.

[@shredderhero656]

hey my ubuntu gnome 20.04 is very slow..i would like to upgrade my drivers to nvidia or amd because right now it is ASPEED or LLVM im not sure but its one of the two...any help will be helpful thanks

[@barackuse]

The issue I have is 'unable to connect to x server: Connection refused' although lspci -nnk shows that my and drivers are loaded.?

[@TheRealDavidLawrence]

This actually cleared up something for my laptop. It is an Intel/ Nvidia... Thanks!

[@TheRealDavidLawrence]

@Jairo Alarcón I knew someone would help finish the puzzle, Thanks!

[@bobgrimes8618]

My Arco B install does not have the Nvidia 340.xx legacy drivers for my old Thinkpad W530, QuadroK1000m graphics card.

[@kruxdt6307]

You tried the AUR ?

[@bobgrimes8618]

They only have the 390.xx drivers, nothing older.

[@IyotDKI]

helo Sir. how to install nvidia geforce GT 755M on lenovo ideapad y410P using fedora design 36? It has 2 vga.. internal VGA (intel HD) & nvidia geforce GT 755M. I've tried many ways but it always failed

[@informing_]

The resolution is fine on my debian 10 but the boot software (before KDE loads and by the way is KDE necessary? I found that it slows down boot time), anyway before KDE starts the resolution AND the screen aligment are out of order totally, small resolution and the screen is actually off set! any ideas?

[@Phanbot01]

I’ve been an AMD user with Linux for a while now. I’ve always run into the problem of booting into a blank screen after installing nvidia drivers. Never had that problem with my 5700 XT or Vega 64.

[@maxrodriguez643]

This is true for me. Months of that pain on Nvidia. But this was mostly because I have a laptop with an Nvidia Optimus chip for hybrid iGPU/dGPU

[@spaceman0051]

I installed my graphics card and it's using driver "radeon" but I can tell by the frame rate in games it's not being utilized. What do I do?

[@Edmundostudios]

Excellent video. I am putting some older systems on Linux and found the driver situation a bit confusing. Seems to be more like how things work on Mac where everything is all installed by default without hunting drivers as much.

[@louistournas120]

On Ubuntu and probably all popular distro, the driver updates are pushed along with other software updates, when they become available. The only problem I noticed is that on Kubuntu, when there is a nVidia driver update, you can't reboot. Something about a KDE greeter crashing. I have to open the Console and type shutdown -r 0 to reboot the PC. With Kubuntu 21.10 and 22.04, this problem has been fixed.

[@Edmundostudios]

@@louistournas120 I had a lot of issues getting the older macs with Nvidia cards working. The proprietary driver just caused black screens after installation and the only way around this was to use the open source driver but this caused very poor performance to the point where it wasn’t worth using. I also had similar problems on other older Nvidia cards like the GTX 570 which would not work properly on modern LTS Ubuntu. I haven’t had as many issues using intel graphics or AMD systems.

[@louistournas120]

@@Edmundostudios I see. I run Kubuntu on PCs. I did have a Gf 8500 GT and with Kubuntu 18.04 and I don't know which version nvidia driver, it was working fine. Eventually, I had Kubuntu 20.04 on it and I think the nvidia driver was fine. I think there was a kernel update at some point and upon reboot, I would get a black screen. I switched to the Nouveau driver which worked. It’s an old Athlon II X2 used for web surfing and AVI video watching. On my main PC, Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz and GTX 980 4 GB, I think with the 510 version nvidia driver, sometimes I would boot up and it would stop just after GRUB on a black screen. This happened a bunch of times. Eventually, there was a kernel update which fixed this. I do gaming on this PC so I want the latest drivers.

[@saruu932]

Mesa or vesa for r5 3400g? I want to try gaming and all guides say i should install mesa but what config Manjaro shows vesa as option

[@maskedredstonerproz]

Hello Sir, I have an AMD graphics card that is causing me problems, and since it's attached to the motherboard disabling the driver is the only way to fix the problem, so how can I do that on Linux, I've been doing it on windows easily but I'm planning to switch to Linux and I don't know how to do that on there

[@shaind]

Amd graphics driver already included in linux kernel?? Then why my ryzen 3700u won't work with debian 10?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Debian 10 has a very long development cycle... about 2 years or so and is a horrible choice for cutting edge tech. Try out Manjaro and you will fair a LOT better.

[@TheSimonarne]

when i run he .run in the terminal is it suposed to do anything for me. it just enters back into the terminal

[@dimitrijecabarkapa9085]

I have an amd gpu in my laptop but ubuntu uses integrated intel gpu. How can I change it

[@dumdumreviews7436]

Amd rx4808gb won't be able to run with Davinci Resolve, gpu pro needed, but amdgpu is unsupported. WTF

[@spiderron1463]

Switch from a GTX980 to a Radeon RX5700 XT on Linux Mint 19.3 and the drivers are not installing. Cant use it at all. Is there a how to somewhere? Even installed Linux new. Nothing. Help!

[@poseidon3032]

Considering how new it is, you'll probably have to go with proprietary drivers.www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-5700-series/amd-radeon-rx-5700-series/amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt

[@Fromheaven007]

I am trying for a week to make 2 nvidia gpu with 2 displays but it doesnt work with none last drivers on three different linux. The only way see both disolays working at once is x.org drivers but lag in performance. Am I right?

[@MrinalSaurabh]

Hey Chris, I don't see Purism Librem One service link in the description? Is it launched? I was waiting for it to launch from so long..

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Go-to puri.sm I've just started tinkering with the Android apps.

[@satyajitdas6133]

I have a Amd Vega 8 + Rx560x setup in my laptop.. in windows i can just switch them whenever i want.. is that possible in linux too?? I really want to go all in into linux, no dual boot. That is the only thing that's stopping me

[@LordVltor]

Ok, I went AMD exactly due to this: moving from WinOS to LinuxOS, I moved from Intel/NVidia to AMD/ATI too. Point is: I'm running on a "new" Acer Aspire 3 A315-41-R1HG with an AMD Radeon Vega Mobile Graphics 8, and seems that no drivers are issued for this kind of videocard - at least, not on Mint v18.3 XFCE; which seems the only OS supported (v17.3 has an issue with a grub that is "too old"; while v19.1 goes into CPU stuck for 23 seconds and never installs). Are these drivers a separate package I need to find and install or there's some other trick needed to get AMD's laptop graphic card to work?

[@beezanteeum]

Change the Distro

[@LordVltor]

@@beezanteeum Problem got partially fixed with Mint 20.

[@Skaper_]

Is overclocking the graphics card as easy on Linux as it is on Windows (MSI Afterburner)? If not how can I go about it?

[@maxrodriguez643]

Pretty sure it's a BIOS thing, which doesnt matter what OS you are running (I think)

[@lucidtheming3190]

There needs to be a dedicated video on switchable graphics in linux. I use PopOs because regular ubuntu doesn't do switchable properly. Laptops are a thing, you know?

[@mrb4285]

I agree. Optimus notebooks can be a ton of problems on Linux. I have so many problems with distros and my Optimus setup. Im running Pop Os too

[@danielbullon7122]

Same here, Pop! OS is the only distro that works well for me with switchable graphics

[@dxfvgyhjh]

you mean turn off the dedicated gpu?

[@stephenfienberg8765]

Your instructions on installing Nvidia drivers are not true for all distros. In CentOS/RHEL you need to add the officially supported ELRepo to your package manager. From there you can install Nvidia-detect then "yum install $(nvidia-detect) finds and installs the correct drivers and maintains the updates with your package manager. All scientific and enterprise engineering Linux applications are coded exclusively for Nvidia. The Nvidia experience for me has been fine since loading ELRepo to my package manager.

[@benriful]

In most Debian desktop variants that entire procedure is just a tickbox at install and/or a click in a Driver Update GUI app. It is definitely the case on all Ubuntu derivatives such as Mint and Ubuntu itself. Each distro has various "philosophies". E.g. straight Debian does not "like" proprietary stuff, so you won't see a Nvidia driver without similarly adding extra repositories. This very much may be the exact same case for RHEL and CentOS. Chris mentioned the download .run idea just because that "should" work on nearly any distro. It's not ideal, and definitely not the standard way of doing it. I'd advise instead a repo addition so it has a means of updating the driver automatically. Exactly as you state on yours.

[@jakemeals]

What about if you have only Intel graphics. Certain laptops, budget/used computers.

[@LampJustin]

They also run on open-source Mesa drivers!

[@albynoson]

Intel drivers are open source as well. The procedure for getting integrated graphics (both intel and AMD) is the same as getting an AMD graphics discrete graphics card working: maintaining the mesa package.

[@daddelkiste6453]

Thnx for this video to collect ideas for my new setup :). Now i am in love with my Radeon 7 (water cooled) with the opensource driver!

[@balu5377]

I have a lot of issues with Nvidia proprietary driver. When I sleep and wake my computer it’s glitches

[@holymegadave]

Its possible to use Crossfire? I have two old graphics that in windows i can use both to get 4 gb DDR5 video memory but in linux i only can use one card so i only can use 2 gb... and some games require a lot of ram.

[@LoveNjustice]

Hi. Thanks for sharing. If I'm buying an AMD card for an older computer. How will i know if it is the amd pro version or the one that works well with linux. I've always used nvidia cards on my linux machine.

[@knzw25]

AMD ATI Radeon HD 6670 PCIe card doesn't work, just isn't supported in Linux (10 distros tested). Beautiful card with single quiet fan, 1 GB of memory. Works great with Win 10 (1280 x 1024), but with Linux, max res of 1024 x 768 is all you get. You probably need to have at least Radeon HD 7xxx series PCIe card for Linux (amdgpu kernel driver) to deal with it.

[@StenIsaksson]

On Ubuntu you can open Software & Updates and then go to the Other Software tab and add ppa:graphics-drivers If you do that you get more updated open source drivers for Nvidia cards in the Additional Drivers tab. /Not an Arch user

[@zoranilijic8406]

Please my Linux brothers, i need your help. I want to switch so bad on Manjaro, but the problem is, when i play a video on youtube in 4k, video is smooth but when i play it on Manjaro on 4k, video start to stutter. Does anyone knows how can i fix that so i can move finally to Manjaro? Sudo apt plshelpme (i have laptop with integrated Intel UHD 620 and dedicated AMD Radeon 530)

[@j800r]

Most mainstream distros make installing proprietary drivers easy. There's no need to download anything from the web. In fact, most of the time there's no need to install anything through the terminal. I feel this is slightly biased information but I'll agree AMD takes the crown atm regarding it "just working".

[@pw1187]

If you want the latest nivida video drivers 430 yea you have to if on Ubuntu base os then you still have to go thru a ppa that's not there by default

[@j800r]

@@pw1187 Only the most hardcore gamers are really gonna need to worry about the latest and greatest and in they're still on Windows. For general gaming included proprietary get the job done. My point was there's no NEED to. There may be a desire to for numerous reasons.

[@pw1187]

@@j800r I see your not a gamer and no it's not hard core gamers it's any gamer that plays games that are 2 to 3 years old Benefit greatly from the newest drivers I guess you are probly classify me as a hardcore gamer although really I'm not and I'm on Linux.

[@j800r]

@@pw1187 No, my friend. I would classify you as a dickhead who has nothing better to do with their time then argue semantics in a comments section with a complete stranger. I'm done with you.My point stands. I clarified for your benefit. I have better things to do than to dance circles with you.

[@pw1187]

@@j800r lol puts your opinion on a decision fourm gets mad at a person with different opinions...

[@zenec_]

Do to pentesting not gaming, on Manjaro and then Arch, what's the best ? thx

[@williamrockhill8018]

i'm using popo's 76 how do i ENABLE COOL BITS

[@Creator-jm1iy]

what about open cl do i need amd pro driver for it

[@MrAsteliks007]

Not exactly you can use the Gnome software app. The only thing is that you need to sign the driver if you are using secure boot

[@TheLotw]

I used to game with a nVidia GTX1080 and wanted to try and AMD card to see what it was like, mainly cause I was doing distro hoping a lot (which I dont anymore, its Arch all the way for me). I bought the R580 from AMD cause of the price and it really worked well, in fact I rarely see a difference in gaming and in one game (so far) No Man's Sky (beta using Vulkan support) it actually out performs the GTX1080, yes I swapped drives, installed Arch using my scripts so the systems had same everything. I was shocked. For the price you cannot go wrong with the AMD R580 and if your a Linux user dont even think about it get that or the new R7 are wait till they release their new ones in a few months, but better know how to install the newest kernel, mesa packages, etc. (One of the reasons I run Arch, always get the newest).

[@TheLotw]

@@motoryzen Yes you can but its not as easy as some distros make it.

[@RepsUp100]

Thanks for the info, please make an updated video with Intel as well

[@samuellourenco1050]

I'm happy that I've decided to drop my GTX 1050Ti and replace it with a RX 6600. Basically, it was a matter of drivers that led me to do this. Simply, by upgrading from Kubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS, my GPU stopped working properly with the official drivers. However, after changing to AMD, the drivers weren't there, and after installing them my computer was constantly freezing and crashing. After installing Kununtu from scratch, my new GPU never failed on me again. I'm glad I've decided to wait before RMA a card that would be good.

[@eonshade6297]

I got an issue with xorg freezing under "heavy" load and the x server needs to be restarted. I have a geforce 210 and the driver is nvidia 340, but no matter what it seems like it's not fixable. I am quite certain that it's just simply a driver problem.

[@Vanadain]

What if I am willing to choose Parabola OS and use linux-libre kernel? AMD drivers are removed for linux-libre as far that I understand. Can I still use Nvidia card with Nouveau? Has anyone tried this?

[@Vanadain]

@gilkesisking So, Intel is possible, what about Nvidia opensource drivers (I know, they are not excellent). Thanks! I have troubles finding anything online.

[@TrueWordsOfEternity]

Chris can you make a video on krita 4.2 and your views on it?

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Sure I love krita

[@TrueWordsOfEternity]

that will be grate :) i just started to use monjario after watching alot of your arch videos and i really like krita too :)

[@infopackrat]

What about older graphics cards? What if you just want decent KZbin playback at up to 1080p? I'm dealing with an old system a friend has with a Radeon RS690 chipset. I could install the proprietary driver if it would help video playing.

[@suyogmule3630]

Actually Nvidia also released open-source drivers from version 430.x . I use opensuse tumbleweed and archlinux and both were available for me from default package manager. For archlinux or fedora you need to install .run file for first time driver installation for ubuntu or debian you can use ppa and for opensuse you can use yast2 and add nvidia community repo to install drivers

[@Alex11223l2]

They are not open source.

[@Daniel-wn5ye]

What are you talking about? Nvidia never released any open source drivers for PC. Nvidia is anti open source as it gets.

[@suyogmule3630]

@@Daniel-wn5ye aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-beta/ Check this out. Ik Nvidia is proprietary but they recently supporting community by releasing some of their packages open source. On this website you will also find code of .run file and packer

[@theobserver4214]

@@Daniel-wn5ye Yet they are a gold XDC sponsor. AMD is a silver sponsor. Intel is Platinum! How do you explain that?

[@ingog.8424]

The official manual of Nvidia for Ubuntu actually says you have to quit your graphical interface and then run the driver installation from the terminal interface, which indeed was a must for me on Linux Mint. This made it really a pain for me to update the Nvidia graphics driver. Now I simply switched to AMD.

[@nightelf7921]

I am thinking in buy a AMD Radeon 5600XT for multimonitor desktop linux (2xFullHD and 1x4K) and just to use hardware acceleration in Firefox and Chrome. Is it usefull for this matter? I have a regular laptop and is not enought for so many monitors. Thanks.

[@iamsiddhantsahu]

Much needed video! Everyone seems to have issues with graphics drivers in Linux. Sometimes when installing fresh Linux on a laptop it freezes on start up because of ACPI and we need to add "acpi_osi=!" "acpi_osi='Windows 2009'". Can you tell why does this happens? Does it have to do something with Graphics and Nvidia Optimus?

[@maxrodriguez643]

This was my EXACT situation for months. As of January 2022, the Linux kernel 5.16 and Nvidia driver 510 has fixed all my optimus issues. I no longer need `optimus-manager` or `gdm-prime` to workaround this, or the "acpi_osi='Windows 2009' kernel parameter. My laptop runs fine without any of those, but it's only restriction this way is that it will only use the HDMI port as display, and will not detect the built in monitor.

[@shanedavenport734]

The only thing with using AMD in Linux is you don't get the GPU video encoding in Handbrake. Nvidia on the other hand is easy to setup GPU video encoding for Handbrake.

[@MahdiImeni]

Do you have any idea about installing AMDVLK on fedora 31 ?

[@errsta]

I've been using nvidia for 15+ years simply because getting Radeon drivers to work was such a pain. I had no idea AMD open sourced their drivers and linux fixed this. Glad I stumbled on this video. Grabbing nvidia drivers from the repo has *mostly* worked well enough for me - with a few hiccups here and there (usually as a result of compiling my own kernel). I'm upgrading my pc now after a few years and this video saved me a few bucks. Thanks!

[@killertigergaming6762]

Seriously? nvidia is notorious for having dumpster fire linux drivers

[@errsta]

@@killertigergaming6762 I spent too much time ~2004-2005ish fighting with a Radeon X850 xt. Got it half price through a deal my job used to have with ATI. Eventually, switched to a mid-tier nvidia card and got it to work fairly easily. Did driver updates regularly cause unnecessary hours of pain in all of that time? Absolutely. Kind of just stuck with nvidia and ignored what was happening in Radeon world until early 2020. No plans on going back to nvidia.

[@adventuretimemoto]

If you use a distro like Fedora or Arch where they always use the latest stable kernel. Use AMD. If you have to use Nvidia then use Ubuntu or a derivative.

[@b.i.b7582]

How to install intel gpu driver for kali 2020.2

[@vladislavkaras491]

It is kinda strange, that AMD is more open for open source and Linux, but many Linux guys still using nVidia GPUs. Also, it is also strange, that AMD themselves have not yet created Adrenaline (and other utilities) to control the GPU. Thankfully we have community ^^ Thanks for the video, Chris!

[@nullzero821]

how do you undervolt AMD cards on linux please?

[@oldschooldiablo169]

Lm-sensors might help. Not sure only messed with it for fan control on my. RX 590

[@goldhalowings]

You didn't mention the *nouveau* driver which is also a non proprietary kernel driver for nvidia cards, any GPU brand which has a non proprietary driver is welcomed to GNU OS users not just AMD.

[@johnprosser2142]

Thank you for that! Before installing the newest Nvidia drivers, is there a nice easy way to remove all pre-existing drivers? Thank you in advance!

[@orestisfraSPDR]

do I need lib32 packages and catalyst drivers?

[@jonspoonamore3721]

On my 9 year old laptop with on-board Intel GPU.... With Kernel 4.19 and older, the best playback I could get was 720p (1080p was choppy). Now with Kernel 5.x, I get smooth 1080p playback.

[@Dac_DT_MKD]

I wanted to switch my computer from Windows to Linux by dual booting with 2 separate drives but Linux Mint Cinnamon kept crashing when I rebooted the PC. I have a GTX 1050TI card and the Cinnamon desktop just doesn't like that card, even when I installed Ubuntu and downloaded the Cinnamon desktop.

[@JudasMugensson]

Seems odd. I have a 1060 and it has no issues running the cinnamon desktop, have you tried using xfce or kde instead?

[@Dac_DT_MKD]

@@JudasMugensson I've tried Kubuntu in VM and Linux Mint xfce on another computer and although they are pretty good, Cinnamon is the best for me.

[@JudasMugensson]

@@Dac_DT_MKD I think it's odd because I've used cinnamon on a similar card for almost 7 months since I started using linux and I still love it. Did you run the open source driver or the proprietary one?

[@Daniel-wn5ye]

Cinnamon was crashing (actually freezing) for me too when I had a laptop with Nvidia GPU, then I switched to KDE Plasma on Kubuntu and the freezing was over. Now I don't even have an Nvdia GPU so everything is better. Maybe you can try KDE Plasma and see if you still have crashes.

[@poseidon3032]

I came upon the idea of installing from non-free firmware ISOs. So it seems that this might solve proprietary driver woes. Can anyone confirm this?

[@IanSRutter]

Great video. I'm using Linux Arch full time and it's on an Asus R2 Sabertooth FX900 motherboard with a FX8350 CPU, Nvidia 660 GPU and 32 gigabytes of RAM. It's fast as anything, BUT I am doing a lot of Blender now and of course that is killing the 660. I've been looking at a new GPU, I don't want a new system. The FX8350 is great with Linux. It's reliable and I've never had any problems with the system when I was running Win10. I've been looking at the AMD RX5700 but I could run into bottlenecks as the system is pretty old with such an advanced GPU. AMD on their listing does say the RX is compatible with the Sabertooth. So, I am thinking of getting 2 RX590s. That would give me 16GB of VRAM for Blender and the SabertoothFX900 with the FX8350 should be able to handle those. Having 2 GPUS, will my Arch running 5.4.10 kernel automatically detect the GPU's and give me a running system? Updating Nvidia 660 has been a pain, so once I got my three monitors working, I disabled any Nvidia updates. Great info on the GPU front. Glad you have a stable system.

[@awakejake9296]

I'm still fairly new to Linux but have an ok grasp on it I would say. I know how to use the terminal and have installed the mesa drivers but I was wondering I'm on Linux mint 20.3 with the KDE desktop environment intel core i3 10100 AMD radeon RX 6600 XT is there a GUI settings menu for AMD GPUs on Linux? Most games work just fine for me but for example I'm playing stray with occasional dips in frame rate which is manageable but obviously not having dips in FPS is best. Meanwhile games like NFS heat are playable but I get terrible FPS (sometimes below 20) I was wondering if maybe I can mess with some of the GPU settings or if I'm just gonna have to deal with some games just not being as playable as I want them to be. I still dualboot with windows 10 so it's not a big issue since these games run great on windows.

[@MixMario1911]

Tell you what, I've always got trouble with open driver for nVidia, even if I was able to play something it started lagging after while. I have no idea why

[@kruxdt6307]

Because Nvidia won't open source their drivers that's why nouveau sucks

[@MixMario1911]

@@kruxdt6307 I don't understand that why some part of community time to time recommend nouveau drivers for newbies

[@JudasMugensson]

@@MixMario1911 because they're biased towards open source even if it is crap in the case of nvidia. AMD however is a different story.

[@Daniel-wn5ye]

Open driver (nouveau) for Nvidia is a community effor for a shitty vendor that actively blocks and sabotage the community from creating a good pen driver for their GPUs so they have all control over it.

[@MrVelkroTek]

Have been running Linux on my laptop for some time now but have had the same big problem for ages until my recent install of PoP os. The problem I had was using switchable graphics, betreen the onboard intel and discrete amd 7970 graphics card. I could never get the amd card to work properly with many of the distros I tried they all defaulted to the onboard intel. With later releases of ubuntu I read that older cards may not be supported with drivers and kind of gave up on it for a while. Pop has changed things so much for the better and I was wondering if other distros were starting to do the same or whether there were tutorials to help get the same switchable graphics solution as found in pop.

[@vensirestudios]

I have got a question. I have an AMD R9 390 and I have had terror experiences trying to get it up on Linux (Haven't tried recently). What Kernel should I be running and up?

[@vensirestudios]

@gilkesisking Awesome thanks. I was hoping it would be that. I just couldn't keep it stable long enough to get into ukuu and have it install that. I will have to take that card and slap that in the other comp and see :) Thank you.

[@rhekman]

@@vensirestudios Latest Ubuntu and Mesa should be good to go. Note the R9 290/390 is the older version 2 of GCN (Hawaii), so you might need to force enable the newest driver on the kernel command line by adding 'modprobe.blacklist=radeon amdgpu.cik_support=1 amdgpu.dc=1' That should disable the old radeon display driver and enable the new amdgpu driver with the latest display code that supports freesync, hdmi audio, etc. If the installer gives you trouble you can flip back to the old driver temporarily with 'modprobe.blacklist=amdgpu nomodeset'

[@vensirestudios]

@@rhekman Thank you.

[@pascalvorbach6829]

Great content like always! I am running a Ryzen 5 2600 systen with 16gb of Ram and a Sapphire Radeon Rx570 4gb , runs flawlessly! I am using PopOs since 3 months, pretty nice distro.

[@ghettogamerz2595]

WILL the AMV Drivers work well with Davinci Resolve 16?

[@JudasMugensson]

I have both an 1060 3gb and an AMD rx 480 8gb. I've used both on linux and I prefer my 1060 because it performs better, is more quiet and doesn't stutter in games like fallout 4, the rx 480 doesn't work in games like dirt rally through proton but the Nvidia card does. The biggest issues I have with the AMD card is it thermal throttles on stock fan curve and with a custom one it ramps up to 100% each time I turn of the PC. Also freesync doesn't seem to be that easy to enable if it even works unlike the 1060 were it does work by toggling it in the Nvidia settings.

[@SwiatLinuksa]

You ever tried RADEON-PROFILE from GIT ? This app can manage GPU fan, can create profiles for it, GPU power can be managed too. There option to OC your card but UV don't yet included. Very useful tool! Git Marazamista if I good remember. Wattman from Git is weak and buggy btw. Rx 570 nitro+ 8gb working beautiful

[@JudasMugensson]

@@SwiatLinuksa I'm gonna check that out when I put the rx 480 back in my main pc. Back when I had the rx 480 in my main pc I tried using wattman and it was quite bad and it was more effective to edit the files manually. RADEON-PROFILE seems to be quite new, do you know if I would apply a custom fan curve and then shutdown the pc if the fans would ramp up to 100% as they do when using fancontrol?

[@SwiatLinuksa]

@@JudasMugensson Wattman in Linux doesn't have fan control. Radeon-profile have full support, older cards too not only rx3/4/5 versions. You can create custom profile and set any rpms to different temperature manually. If program fail , it's auto set 30 or 50 % rpm ( default in system driver's it's 30%). If daemon fail all control going to kernel driver's so no possibility to overheat GPU. I using it about year and no bigger problems. Profiles are saving and run at system start automatically ( radeon-profile daemon must be compile and run ) all guides are avaible at Git.

[@Basic-Vogs]

Can't able to install amd graphic driver. My graphics Card is Radeon HD 6450 2gb DDR3.

[@robertcoyle9071]

I got a optiplex 5040 SFF and ordered a radeon r5 2GB card that will fit that should be coming today. This answers my question as I know very little about the hardware end and will be getting a vanilla Arch install. This is on top of my SSD for root/grub and HDD for swap/home/var setup. Not as scary as I thought it would be.

[@TIGUAJE]

o.O Hey do you know how to make my Nvidia X Server Settings in POP!_OS 19.04 permanent... I keep losing my choices after reboot -_-

[@TIGUAJE]

"Chris Titus Tech​@Erick Ordoñez When this happens look at making thie changes directly in a .conf file" < evenusing "sudo nano name .conf" or changing xorg files or putting a command in stratup applications preferences it won't save my changes just a few them not all -_- It's frustrating, I need those changes to play game, so no stutter or tearing and the camera will behave accordingly... let me know if you can help me! Thanks in advance! Oh! BTW I think it's System76 config that doesn't let me do some changes, I'll look if they blacklisted Nvidia drivers or something like that.

[@ariloguecom]

i want to play games but also i want to do video editing. using da vinci resolve, openshot, shotcut, kdenlive,, etc. So you suggest again amd graphics card or nvidia for linux?

[@theobserver4214]

He hasn't responded, but I'd recommend NVIDIA. CUDA cores are really high with the latest cards from NVIDIA and cheaper ones will arrive soon. Despite AMD drivers being opensource, from what I can gather online they are not as good as NVIDIA's proprietary drivers. If you arent one for ideology, then NVIDIA is the best option for Linux. They actually put effort into their drivers for one with OpenGL and Vulkan performance parity with Windows.

[@ariloguecom]

@@theobserver4214 thank you very much : )

[@Steblu74]

I installed DaVinci Resolve 17 (and 18) in Ubuntu 20.04, on a computer with an AMD Gpu, and the program opened long enough to tell me it couldn’t find a supported Gpu mode. I don’t think Blackmagic cares, or they would create a proprietary installer for at least one Linux distro -

[@comrade_marshal]

How would Intel's integrated gpu fare compared to AMD or NVIDIA in Linux?

[@flovidiotrading]

It is a headache to configure the nvidia drivers in Linux, first you lose the image or the scaling or you lose the audio or you just do not start the installation of the distribution. Today I'm still struggling to have audio through HDMI in Ubuntu 19.04 with 418 drives.

[@nealgrieb6660]

I need more Linux friends ☹️. I need help with an ASUS laptop running a Ryzen CPU with a GTX card on openSuse. Naturally the openSuse forum is down?

[@filth315]

perfect Graphics setup for under 200$ on Linux RX570 Arch Linux or Artix Linux *vulkan-amdgpu-pro* package they've gotten better since this vid

[@trssho91]

I currently have all nvidia cards…but it seems lately the nvidia drivers have some weird issues creeping up like the desktop corruption coming out of suspend or compositing performance issues (while everything else including gaming is fine). This is the first time in over a decade I have had deal breaking issues out of the box that require more time to research and fix than I’d prefer to put into it. I’m older now with less time on my hands and there is a reason I don’t use Debian or Slackware anymore and use things like kubuntu or mint. I do like the nvidia control panel that comes with their proprietary driver, does amds open source driver have anything comparable? It’s not a deal breaker for me, but it would be nice. My card is getting older and I was considering upgrading and thinking about giving AMD a try for the first time since my old ATi 9700 pro if or when the gpu price bubble pops.

[@indiesigi7807]

Did you give amd a try? How are the drivers really compared to nvidia? I have a hard time to believe they're anywhere near the performance of the nvidia driver.

[@trssho91]

@@indiesigi7807 I did end up getting a Radeon card and as it turned out the open source amdgpu driver works very well. I use a 144hz monitor and it all works well. I do game on it with steam and I've had no issues. I know dead island would just give a black screen on nvidia and it works fine on Radeon.

[@indiesigi7807]

@@trssho91 Thanks for the reply. Glad it's working well for you. New cards coming but i only have good experiences with nvidia on linux.

[@mlambrechts1]

Hi. I've got a new pc the latest amd card and installed linux mint. Before, I always had nvidia on LM without problems (>10y). Took some time to figure out why my graphics card was not installed/detected. First thing: I had to switch to a much newer kernel than the one that LM came with. Then, it still wasn't perfect, but it got a lot better after installing the amd prop drivers (included turning of my pc, shut off the power and push the power-on button for 30 secs and restarting; after that everything went fine). Still miss the nvidia gui program to tweak it, but radeontop now shows it's running/working and everything seems okaynow. My point : amd still seems to be for Linux/computer geeks if you buy some of their latest (most expensive) products.

[@jmm1233]

i would find out what the difference between mesa and vulkan