Do open source(or amd's) drivers work well for hd5570 graphics card?
Solution 1:
I'm using HD5850, and I'm very satisfied with the open radeon driver that's used by default. You can achieve better performance with the proprietary drivers, but they don't always work well and have problems of their own. I prefer to use the open drivers. They just work and I can expect my VGA performance to increase over time. :)
Solution 2:
I have a 5770 XFX XXX 1Gb RAM, and in my experience the answer is: no. After taking a look at the official documentation the answer is still no.
The thing is that the radeon driver package, a.k.a. the open source driver for the ATI vga, offers some support for the oldest cards, for the new ones there are two main option:
the fglrx package that basically contain proprietary driver but packed by the Ubuntu team ( tipically outdated package )
the, so called, fglrx ccc AMD ATI proprietary closed driver ( that are the most updated drivers and probably the right ones for your card )
Downloading and building your own package from the latest driver available from AMD ATI is a pretty easy task http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page and gives you good performance.
Solution 3:
I'm currently using Ubuntu 11.10 and AMD HD6800. Additional drivers didn't work att all, so i find this page -
- http://mrrichard.hubpages.com/hub/2-Ways-to-Install-FGLRX-in-Ubuntu-1110-Oneric - and with this
Option 2: Manually Download/install/Configure the ATI Driver - everything works great.
Here is option 2:
- Download your driver from AMD's website: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
- Right click on the downloaded file. Go to Properties and allow it to be executed as a program.
- Now double click the file, let it run in Terminal, and enter you password when and if required.
- Once done, open up another Terminal and enter the following command: sudo aticonfig --initial
- Reboot
This method applies to all Ubuntu-based distros (Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Xubuntu etc.), by the way.