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Nvidia Fuck You! (Linus Torvalds) My thoughts exactly
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The RGB control is a kernel problem not an OpenRGB problem (well, it might also be an OpenRGB problem if the card doesn't work in Windows either). The amdgpu kernel driver doesn't expose the i2c interfaces not associated with display connectors, so the i2c interface used for RGB is inaccessible and thus we can't control RGB on Linux. AMD's ADL on Windows exposes it just fine.
That said, I can't agree that NVIDIA just works. Their drivers are garbage to get installed and keep updated, especially when new kernels come out. Not to mention the terrible Wayland support and lack of Wayland VRR capability. I'm happy with my Arc A770 (whose RGB is controlled over USB and just works, but requires a motherboard header).
Sure, but it's not the case for all Linux distributions? Whenever my Linux distribution have a new kernel it always takes care of the nvidia driver as part of installing the kernel and if there's a new nvidia driver it installs it after a few days, I never pay much attention to it except for noticing the output from the update.
except when using newer kernels and the nvidia gpu not being updated enough
Back when this statement was made - 11 years ago - nvidia were a lot worst, especially for the kernel developers. A lot has change, and improved in those 11 years.
But people still like to hang on to the old hate and don't see or want to see any progress being actually made. I an fairly sure that Linus even said they were not as bad as they used to be. But I cannot find that quote amongst all the results for that one angry statement he made - people and media much prefer to hate on things than actually see things improve.
While I agree, there are other reasons to hate on them even if they improved in one place... Deceptive marketing, melting cards, poor vender management, etc
Yeah, but their competitors are not doing much better in those regards either. The whole graphics card industry is doing shitty stuff, hell most mega corps are these days.
This is from 10 years ago. Nvidia sucked those days. The demand from machine learning changed all that and forced Nvidia to go open source.
NVIDIA never really went open source...they opened up their kernel drivers to a degree (by moving the majority of the interesting bits into the GPU firmware at that) but the userspace portion (Vulkan, OpenGL, OpenCL, CUDA, etc) is still very much closed source.
I got myself an expensive-ish rx 480 because nvidia said they will support vulkan on it. They never implemented vulkan for fermi. Never again will i buy from greedy liars.
Linus is talking about a different thing entirely. And while their drivers were always great, there is much more to the story then just how well they render 3d.
I've got a 7900xt and idle power draw and heat generation is off the charts, so I must agressively sleep my computer when not in use. I've been hoping for an update to fix it, but nothing yet. And this isn't really AMDs problem, but a lot of AI stuff just isn't possible on RDNA 3, because the python libraries don't support it. Some library updates have started supporting it, but often the tools to make the models work uses old library versions.
I'd have to pull out my kill-a-watt to get an accurate reading, but my house grid increases by about .2-.3kw when my PC is on. That doesn't count all my monitors and whatnot. It is a noticable drain on my houses grid at idle.
Ironically, my nvidia gpu laptop actually works better with nvidia than my pc with nvidia, at least on NixOS.
the TDP and the 2 years old bug that are being reported more and more as fixed in latest kernels?