On Thursday, 13 October 2022 18:56:32 BST Felix Miata wrote:
Ianseeks composed on 2022-10-13 16:48 (UTC+0100):
I'm currently using an old Nvidia card which sometimes makes horrible screaming noises when viewing videos. I've decided to go to AMD instead and looking at old cheap AMD Firepro cards (my system is old), I was just wondering if anyone has any experience of them on Tumbleweed and old Gigabyte (PCEe 2.0, AMD CPU) motherboards.
How old is old? Maybe 10 years or so.
I have a bunch of older AMD cards, mostly ATI Radeon, one FireGL. None I have in current use give any trouble. I had a few really old ones puke in various ways I suspect to be dying RAM, as they worked, but produced various types of screen artifacts. Thats good ot know.
I recommend you try to get one newer than 2013, the year GCN2 was new, so GCN3 technology or newer is what to try for. It should be good for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units has the model numbers. Some models newer than 2013 use the older tech, so the lookup table is needed shopping for used. I'll check that out
What software do I have to install to get the open source AMD drivers I've got some Vulkan stuff already installed (not sure how as i've not used an AMD graphics card on this system) but there is lots of other software listed for Vulkan not installed.
All the software you need is probably already installed. The main thing you'll need to do is ensure all proprietary NVidia software is purged according to the instructions provided for installing. I've been using Nouveau.
Thanks for the tips Ian -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20221008 Qt: 5.15.6 KDE Frameworks: 5.98.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.25.5 - kwin 5.25.5 kmail2 5.21.1 (22.08.1) - akonadiserver 5.21.1 (22.08.1) - Kernel: 6.0.0-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.17