Re: Nvidia card swap
On 03/07/17 17:59, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Monday, 03 July 2017 at 09:07, Robin Laing wrote:
> On 30/06/17 06:09, Christian Groove wrote:
>>
>> better buy a AMD/ATI card und forget about to think
>> about which driver to install.
>
> Nice try.
>
> I purchased an AMD based motherboard with on-board video. Not even close to
> the age of my oldest nVidia card and the AMD driver for Linux didn't support
> it any more.
>
> AMD's suggestion was to replace the video card. So I did with an nVidia
> card.
Out of curiosity: which AMD GPU was it? Have you tried only the AMD
binary drivers or the open source ones as well?
Regards,
Dominik
Looking at when I purchased it.
Tried to load the Catalyst driver and it caused many problems. Went to
AMD site to check the latest driver and found out that their site
basically said it was not supported and go replace video card with newer
model.
ATI Radeon HD 3000 is what is stated in the data sheet.
In 2012 there was an article about dropping support in Catalyst for this
video processor.
https://www.linux.com/news/amd-drop-radeon-hd-200030004000-catalyst-support
I wish I had done some more research before purchasing the board. My
error in expecting ATI long term support to be as good as nVidia at the
time.
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