Hacker News Reader

AMD has been paying developers for years to develop free drivers. It has taken this long because they essentially had to rewrite everything and modern display drivers are complicated beasts.

The in-kernel, fancy KMS, AMD drivers should just work right now for many people. 2D is faster than the proprietary driver and the 3D speed is a significant fraction of the proprietary driver.

View on HN

And it still heats badly. The most important me as for the laptop Linux user was a comfortable temerature, which AMD failed to provide either way.

Have you tried enabling dpm? When enabled with a kernel parameter it dynamically changes the card frequency. I think you need a kernel version > 3.11. Check out:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Dynamic_power_manag...

and

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#index3h2

I didn't yet. The best results I could possibly achieve were dynpm ones - about 65 degrees Celsius, which is completely unacceptable anyway. I've moved to a regular desktop PC, and I'm so happy for it ever since. Good to know though, that some improvement seems to be made. Thanks for that link!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com