Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-01-30 Thread Andreas Messer
Hello Tim, On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:05:54PM +, Tim Wallace via Dng wrote: > I have been happily running ascii but upgraded from my Intel built-in > graphics to an AMD FirePro W4100 because I do a lot of 4K video editing, > but no game-playing, and thought this 50W card would save energy and

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-01-30 Thread Ludovic Bellière
Hello Tim, > Thanks so much for your helpful (and sobering) replies!  If I had spent > $50 (instead of $260) for this card, I would have already trashed it and > just bought the Nvidia one (Quadro K1200)!  Clearly AMD is not a panacea > for Linux video cards!  I may still do that, or maybe try to

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-01-30 Thread Ludovic Bellière
Hi temp, The 5.4 kernel is also available through the backports if you're running Beowulf. Ludovic On 31/01/20 03:20, tempforever wrote: > I have no idea whether it will help your particular problem, but I can > report that I've successfully built and run run 5.4 on ascii (if that > was a

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-01-30 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 02:28:09AM +, Tim Wallace via Dng wrote: > Yes it was, and thanks for that data point.  I'm more likely to try it on > beowulf, but sounds like there are no major low-level subsystem > incompatibilities. > --Tim The 5.4.14 kernel compiles and runs just fine on

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-01-30 Thread Tim Wallace via Dng
Yes it was, and thanks for that data point.  I'm more likely to try it on beowulf, but sounds like there are no major low-level subsystem incompatibilities. --Tim On Friday, January 31, 2020, 2:20:41 AM UTC, tempforever wrote: I have no idea whether it will help your particular

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-01-30 Thread tempforever
I have no idea whether it will help your particular problem, but I can report that I've successfully built and run run 5.4 on ascii (if that was a question). Tim Wallace via Dng wrote: I have played with the CMDLINE stuff, and blacklisting, to no avail.  I wonder if compiling a 5.4 kernel

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-01-30 Thread Tim Wallace via Dng
Hi Ludovic and Roland-- Thanks so much for your helpful (and sobering) replies!  If I had spent $50 (instead of $260) for this card, I would have already trashed it and just bought the Nvidia one (Quadro K1200)!  Clearly AMD is not a panacea for Linux video cards!  I may still do that, or