On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 09:51:49PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 06:06:16PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2018-11-24 at 15:21 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > Recent AMD GPUs use the "amdgpu" kernel driver and its accompanying Mesa > > > user-space driver, which is an open source stack if you don't count the > > > GPU firmware.
> > I installed an AMD RX550 based card last year. It required updates to > > the kernel, firmware, X driver, and Mesa, which are all available in > > stretch-backports. > > Oooh, sounds like you have at least some clue here -- _and_ there are > non-trivial things one should know. [...] > Thus, are there any particular setups you'd recommend for someone running > unstable and Linus' current kernels? > 4 nVidia cards that brought me nothing but woe, I wish for something that > actually works. And it'd be so nice if instead of having to do the > research, this here Ben guy told me "do this" so I can return to hacking on > things that have nothing in common with graphics drivers. :) Just so this doesn't sound like shoving all effort onto you: even if you won't provide us with a ready answer on a golden platter, any research is so much easier if we can start from some advice. And it's so much better to be aware of problems _before_ buying stuff. And it sounds like problems there are. Thus, knowing what can go bad would be nice for any reader of this list who's about to look for a GPU. Which was never a nice thing -- back in the days of Trident/SiS, today with Mali on ARM or the usual culprits on x86... Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ I've read an article about how lively happy music boosts ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ productivity. You can read it, too, you just need the ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ right music while doing so. I recommend Skepticism ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ (funeral doom metal).