@electriczapus Ahh incorrect, Nvidia is open too with newer devices, AMD still has Pro drivers that are not open source…
I run the open driver here…
/sbin/modinfo nvidia | grep license
license: Dual MIT/GPL
Out of the box support for Intel is all there, guc/huc there is really no configuration required for the Intel ARC, opencl, vulkan, level-zero. Only thing missing is raytracing for blender…
Hi there, I am interested in reading about the time frame on this situation. Do you happen to know of where to keep advised on on the happenings of GCN 4 support with amdgpu?
@malcolmlewis I know that NVIDIA have open-sourced their drivers, but only in the case with recent cards, not the older ones like mine.
Thankfully, I have built my new PC with AMD Radeon RX 7600 graphics card anyway. It works very well with Linux distros, including openSUSE Tumbleweed.
@panorain have no idea, but it will come sooner rather than later. Just like Nvidia concentrating on Turing and newer with GSP, just like Intel concentrating on the Xe driver, I imagine AMD are focused on RDNA or whatever theirs is now called.
At the end of the day, it’s what folks are willing to spend their time developing and not having to backport this and that to keep old hardware running on Tumbleweed.
Does anyone have even older AMD/ATI GPU, like HD 5770? How does it work?
Hello again. I am continuing my thread about the NVIDIA drivers problem.
I was thinking about switching to AMD even before I created that thread. Making the drivers proprietary was the worst for NVIDIA back then (they have open-sourced their drivers, but only for the newer cards).
So, right now, I think about switching to an old AMD graphics card. Why the old, not the new? I mentioned in the previous topic, the PC is from 2011 and its power supply is only 450W. It limits the range of GPUs that it can run.
The main variants I choose between are the RX 550 and HD 5770. Both require a 400W power supply as a minimum. HD 5770 is even older than the GTX 550 Ti I use on that PC now, but it is almost as powerful as 550. I found the used one for $25. RX 550 is newer and even more powerful; I found it for $35.
Also, there are additional variants, but they are worse than the main ones: Radeon HD 5750, HD 5550, HD 7570, R7 360 (HD 6850 and HD 7850 are under question because they require a 500W power supply as a minimum).
But what do I want here? If there is someone who uses one of these old graphics cards (except RX 550; I know it works well), then I want to know how it works on openSUSE Tumbleweed (especially HD 5770). Thanks for attention (and, of course, reading unnecessary information).
(Merged back in, as the original topic is still open - starting a new topic isn’t necessary 
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I built a desktop machine quite a while ago … it has an RX560 and has been absolutely troublefree during the last 5-6 years (?) … I forget now when I built it
It was running TW for a long time, but recently switched to Leap 15.6
Anyway, just an opinion (folks will dispute me), but I will avoid an Nvidia card for any future machine - less problems.
An old thread:
“Displaylink working, but only at 1k on 2k monitors - #3 by myswtest”
I will avoid NVIDIA too. Thankfully, I have built my newer PC with the AMD GPU, and it works very well. Unfortunately, the older one wasn’t built by me.
I have a machine running an HD 6450 and another one running an RX550. Both are running up to date Tumbleweed. The only issue with the HD 6450 is that I have to enable CSM in the BIOS, it apparently doesn’t understand a regular UEFI boot. I don’t run Wayland on either machine so I don’t know what performance would be like under Wayland. Running traditional X, both cards do fine at running a desktop.
To get UEFI support upgrade video BIOS or manually add code for GOP:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:UEFI#GPU_support_-_UEFI_GOP
AMD RX 550 is the best from your list.
No Vulkan support, no OpenGL 4.6 support, no OpenCL support.
AMD develops OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for RDNA1+, but amdgpu driver is still getting patches for GCN hw.
Hi. Sorry for joining in late.
Just some sharing: I am using Nvidia GTX 970, and also had problem of using dual monitors. The only solution now suits me best is to use the xorg driver but not any drivers from Nvidia. I don’t know if it would affect any gaming experience (as I now have not much time to play games in PC now), but at least video playing is still fine.
Please also be noted that BIOS or UEFI settings also affect whether dual monitors is supported or not.
What do you think?
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