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