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On 6/11/19 7:56 AM, Emmanuel Vasilakis wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I'm running a pretty old PC. A Core2Duo E8400 and a GT730 nvidia card. |
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> Now, this is ok for what I need: work (emacs and bunch of terminals) and |
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> some little Kerbal Space Program. |
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> I'm thinking of upgrading some time in the next months to a 3600 AMD |
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> Ryzen when they are available, but in the mean time, I was also thinking |
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> about changing to an AMD gpu too. |
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> The nvidia driver although ok, is giving me some trouble mostly when |
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> suspending to ram. Sometimes it wont work, and the culprit from dmesg is |
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> likely the nvidia blob. |
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> So, assuming I would get an RX550/560 card, how well do the amdgpu |
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> drivers (open source) work? Are they ok for steam games? Do they provide |
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> KMS (switching to a Ctrl+Alt+F1 is always garbled now). ? Are they |
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> completely tear free? |
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> Plus, my current GT730 is passively cooled. Are there any RX cards that |
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> at least spin down the fans when I'm working on desktop (no |
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> plasma/gnome, simple Openbox with no heavy gpu requirements). I really |
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> like silence! :-) |
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> Thanks, |
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> Emmanuel |
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I am currently setting up a new computer for a friend's parents. It's a |
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2400G with the Vega graphics. |
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I installed gentoo to stress test the system (compiling mostly, did |
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system and a full KDE desktop) and have had no problems but I haven't |
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tried games. |
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HDMI out works, VGA out works, HDMI audio works. I just had to get a |
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kernel > 4.15 (I think it's 4.18.x right now) and select the amdgpu options. |
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It seems that the default profile installs amdgpu for X automatically, |
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didn't even have to do anything there. I did check X and it is using the |
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amdgpu drivers. |
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I streamed 1080 video from youtube for a couple of hours and I didn't |
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notice any glitches. |
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amdgpu requires modesetting, if you do a 'nomodeset' option all you get |
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is a black screen. |
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Now, I haven't tried them with the RX cards, but for the Vega graphics |
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they are OK. |
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Dan |