However, I also see this: https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:AMD_video_cardswhich says: “Warning: The fglrx driver is no longer supported by openSUSE.” I believe that the Catalyst utility is dependant on the fglrx package?
How do I reconcile this?
OR… Someone please just tell me what, up-to-date, mid-range graphics card to buy! Preferably without a fan…
Definitely a GCN card if sticking with AMD (and the oss amdgpu should work fine), get a card with a displayport as well?
Sorry what is “… a GCN card…”?
My main worry, is how do I configure a Card with a single DisplayPort to connect to two monitors?
The AMD/ATI web site says use a DisplayPort “hub” or Daisy Chained displays and configure with the AMD Catalyst Utility.
But, as I understand it, the Catalyst Utility is not supported in Leap 42.3?
So how (with the amdgpu drivers) do I tell which desktop is displayed on which monitor?
Some cards already come with the display port supporting multiple monitors (hub built-in) and the daisy chain cable. The desktop environment should take care of that (well it does on GNOME) so maybe no need for proprietary drivers (amdgpu-pro).
Does it have to be display port, or would HDMI, DVI (and or VGA) suffice?
The card range on the AMD side are the R series R5x R7x etc. In my laptops I have R3, R4 and R5 Mullins cards (amdgpu), no issues running external HDMI as well as the laptop screen.
Don’t know! I haven’t bought them yet The reason for the upgrade is that one of my existing 1600x1200 DVI monitors has gone to meet its maker.
So rather than just replace like-with-like, I’m taking the opportunity to refresh.
My existing AMD HD5550 card was a pain!! Every time I turned on the HDMI amp it screwed the video configuration.
I guess that this was because whenever the amdgpu drivers saw an HDMI device pop-up, it thought it was a display device (but my ONKYO amp is not!) and reconfigured everything as it saw fit!
Hi
Power supply on the faulty monitor, if so you can normally get a capacitor kit and fix…?
I would just go for something that has HDMI/DVI/VGA and use that rather than display port, but you should be able to get a couple of display port to dvi cables and be good to go to a new DVI capable screen.
AFAIK with that card max resolution will be 2560x1600 per screen.
http://susepaste.org/50814848 was made with IceWM on TW and an $85 USD Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H motherboard, $109 USD eBay i3-7100T CPU, and motherboard/CPU gfx. A standard DisplayPort cable goes from motherboard port to Dell U2913WM, and another standard DisplayPort cable from the Dell to an NEC EA243WM. IceWM automatically positioned the Dell left and the NEC right. This particular PC hasn’t had Leap installed yet, but I have no reason to think it wouldn’t work exactly the same with 42.3.
I tried with the same two displays and cables and an older PC running 15.0 and TDE with PCIe device 1002:6779 Caicos [Radeon HD 8450 / R5 230 OEM] from eBay for $20 USD but apparently this Radeon does not support DisplayPort chaining. By removing the DisplayPort cable from Dell to NEC and using a DVI cable from Radeon to NEC, xdpyinfo reports 4480x1200, as it does in the above screenshot.
I tried with the same two displays and cables and a still older PC running 42.3 and TDE with PCIe device 1002:6611 Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240/340 OEM] from eBay for $13.50 USD but apparently this Radeon also does not support DisplayPort chaining. By removing the DisplayPort cable from Dell to NEC and using a DVI cable from Radeon to NEC, xdpyinfo again reports 4480x1200.
Note all the above were using Xorg’s integrated modeset driver. Neither xf86-video-ati nor xf86-video-amdcpu nor xf86-video-intel are installed on any of them.