Newbro looking for some help
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I recently installed Trisquel on my second hard drive as my first go with a fully installed GNU/Linux OS, and I am over all quite happy with it.
I have a few relatively non-technical questions I would like to ask however:
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Are there any fan control programs you would recommend?
My fans are running full blast and it is a bit annoying, and all the programs I've found seem a bit dated.
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And, is there any real support for 3D graphics on AMD at this time?
Currently I have an AMD R9 280x, and I can see that I have Gallium 4.0 on llvmpipe which I understand does not support 3D acceleration, and I am wondering if I have any better option.
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Is there any support for a Windows 7-like window snapping that allows you to automatically split windows to half the screen when pressing them to the sides of the screen?
I frequently have different sized windows overlapping on my screen, and would like to organize them more fluidly on my GNOME desktop.
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Thank you!
I am a member!
Welcome to Trisquel!
To answer two of your questions:
No, chances are you won't have 3D acceleration with fully libre drivers unless you're using something like a GeForce 8400.
Also, the best way (in my opinion) for window snapping as you described it is to install the XFCE desktop environment. In the settings menu you can find a box labeled "switch desktops when dragging to the edge of the screen" or something like that. Simply uncheck that box and viola: dragging the window to the edge of the screen snaps it to half-screen view.
Also if you feel like learning an entirely new window manager, you could try a tiling manager like "Awesome".
> No, chances are you won't have 3D acceleration with fully libre drivers unless you're using something like a GeForce 8400.
Actually, most NVIDIA cards are supported by Nouveau. The worst offenders are the Maxwell series one (750/750 Ti for instance).
GNOME Shell supports tiling half of the screen (with the mouse or through a keyboard shortcut).
To clarify, since no one has said this explicitly in this thread, all AMD GPUs are basically junk. They can't do any sort of 3-D acceleration without proprietary firmware blobs, and there isn't much of an effort, if any, to reverse-engineer them (unlike Nvidia cards).
The hierarchy of GPUs from best to worst is: Intel integrated GPUs (e.g. Intel GMA and Intel HD; full libre drivers provided by Intel), Nvidia cards (no cooperation from Nvidia, but a mostly successful reverse-engineering effort), and finally AMD/ATI (Radeon) GPUs (no cooperation from AMD, no major reverse-engineering effort).
If you have an AMD card that's replacing an integrated GPU, take it out and offer it for recycling; it's a piece of junk, and it might be blocking an Intel GPU, which is the best possible choice. If you have an AMD integrated GPU, and it's a desktop computer, buy an Nvidia card that works sufficiently with Nouveau (Think Penguin sells one of the better ones), and use that. If you have an AMD integrated GPU on a laptop, you're probably stuck without 3-D acceleration, unfortunately.
A quick search suggests to me that what you have is a card, in which case you might be in luck; pull it out and see what happens. Either switching to your integrated graphics will have no discernible effect (if you have an AMD CPU), or it will solve your problem (if you have an Intel CPU).
I've seen reports that suggest that AMD may be changing gears and giving a bit more support for Open Source drivers, although I may be missing something, since it's not clear to me if we'll be seeing anything like 3D acceleration as part of this change (I'm relatively clueless about this stuff).
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Two-More-Open-Linux-Devs
I found a 2014 talk by and AMD engineer working on open source drivers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOmNWxx4Cwo
But with recent reports of Nvidia trying to block the Nouveau project on their new cards, it seems AMD and Nvidia cards might be swapping places overtime, with Intel hanging out doing what they've done.
I
removed my AMD and plugged my DVI into my motherboard to see if
anything changed, and it seems to be running exactly the same as before.
It seems almost as if my motherboard was simply handing everything off
to the GPU with the GPU doing nothing!
Edit: I have an intel CPU btw.
Like onpon4 wrote: if your Intel processor includes a graphical chipset, then physically remove the AMD card. You will win on every aspect: far more features (including 3D acceleration and video acceleration), far better performances and a far smaller energy consumption.
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