Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:59:21 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> :
On 2024-08-31 13:16, bent fender wrote:
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:53:03 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <> :
It ain't over till the fat lady sings, it's morning here as I begin another blessed day with half an hour of coffee poured on my laptop, I'll resume molesting the desktop again in the evening as usual. I do have another used AMD card with a 6-pin aux-power plug that my PSU cannot cater to, I have ordered some molex-to-6 and molex-to-8 adapters though. A dealer 'gave' me this one (which should be a red flag) as a replacement for another old AMD that packed up and led to the return of the old gt640, last try this new old AMD just gave one long and three short beeps which I must say was a huge improvement over two new ones returned to the stores they came from weeks ago.
The part that worries ME is where a user with a home on a another drive to which a link points in /home doesn't work as it did the last time I had a working TW. Ubuntu-Studio did something similar to me last year with one of its package handling horrors that wouldn't either. Ubuntu is gone now. Later :-)
I meant gone from MY computers (hint)
The card I am currently using is a MSI Radeon RX589, which was relatively cheap.
Telcontar:~ # inxi -G Graphics: Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] driver: amdgpu v: kernel Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.5 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.5 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 580 Series (polaris10 LLVM 15.0.7 DRM 3.49 5.14.21-150500.55.73-default) Telcontar:~ #
Thank you I have a radion ATI p/n 7122284000G(043A1D) that may or may not work (waiting for a 6-pin connector) One of my sons has offered another old AMD, no data yet. The one installed: my old fanless nvidia gt640 https://www.zotac.com/download/files/styles/w1024/public/product_gallery/gra... I have no issues with buying a good AMD, when I bought the nvidia it wasn't cheap by any 2012 standard. One problem is that they all have 2-3 fans while I'm on the warpath against noise, I might find other solutions involving novel cooling methods. It's on hold, as is a totally ECC box for the simple reason that the market is too confusing, dishonest, and not transparent enough.
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)