My point was just that AMDs proprietary driver package is the only one that ships with the Catalyst software for configuration. That's usually how it works nowadays as it's more efficient than running a driver in userland, and also allow interfacing directly with the card through the driver if needed. As far as I know both drivers are running as kernel mode modules that simple receive commands from the display sever, be it X or Wayland. I believe the x11 driver are just the drivers that are packaged for Xorg instead. Whatever distro you use, you get the best AMD driver it has by default.Īs noted, however, what you don't get is anything to configure/tweak the card.If they're using the default GNOME desktop it likely had the Wayland drivers installed by default. Ditto, the 590, Vega 56, Vega 64, etc.) because it releases its driver code for all those cards as open source and it's incorporated in the kernel. If memory serves, the 'xorg-X11-drv-amdgpu' package in the repos moves things back to the X server.ĪMD has no reason to release Fedora drivers for its Pro line of cards (which, again, the 580 isn't. I.e., 'moves this process from the X server's DDX drivers to the kernel'. I'm a little fuzzy on this, but Fedora deals with current AMD cards via kernel modesetting.

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