Installation frustrations

[Matt Graham]

On 2014-09-23 07:12, Michael Butash wrote:
> I'll second (or forth) for mint debian edition.

Forth?  GENTOO ++ HAPPY PRINT .[0]

> why X will consume 32gb of my 32gb of ram until it swaps to death
> on my desktop. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the fglrx blob

This doesn't happen with the radeon X module AFAICT.  Also, I thought 
most OpenGL features and video output bits are supported with most cards 
via radeon.  If you need something that's only supported under fglrx, 
what is that thing?  Both my old laptop and my current desktop have 
radeon cards, but the cards were/are older.  I think my desktop's got an 
HD4350 (r600).

> Getting support out of AMD for linux seems to require an act of some
> deity to fix their shite drivers.

There are usually fewer bugs in things that are open... funny, that :-)

[0] My HP-28S died after many years.  SAD 20 + .

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