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And if you think of testing as a safer alt to sid think again.
When I bought my card, the support for it was still work-in-progress, so I had to get the kernel and Mesa packages from Experimental to get it all working. It's not a problem for me nowadays, but they still are improving things almost every day, so I like to get my fingers on them as soon as possible.
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Last edited by Linas on 14 December 2020 at 11:09 am UTC
All the little fixes takes much too long to trickle down to testing for my taste.
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I used testing for many years without issue; I did jump to Sid for a short while, but went back very quickly! In my experience, it is great for daily use!
I don't have a massive budget, so the card I'm looking at is over 12 months old, and almost certainly supported in mesa, so I should be fine
This is on a system I built around 2 years ago: Ryzen 7 2700X, 16GB RAM, GTX1060.
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 and have proprietary nV drivers installed, for gaming of course :)
I was also curious what happens, when I just turn off the machine, extract GTX1060, put there RX 5600XT and power it on.
Lo and behold, everything worked as seamlessly as possible. Ubuntu never touched those (still installed!) nV drivers and automatically fired-up Mesa. I was able to game via Steam immediately and in a plug&play fashion ;)
After this, I just added Oibaf PPA mesa devel driver repo to my system and updated drivers for best performance and for Cyberpunk2077 compatibility.
(Warning: this is a bleeding edge devel version of Mesa, so might be broken for gaming from time to time. 99.9% of the updates are working perfectly throughout the time though; I'm using it on my daily driver HP ENVY AMD-based laptop for 1,5 years).
I also wanted to test installation and usage of OpenCL, because I heard (some years ago) that on AMD oss drivers it is a pain to make it work. I had it installed and up&running within 5 minutes; tested it on rendering a scene via GPU in Blender....
Which reminds me - I should clean up the nV drivers from my system finally...
Marry Christmas! :)
Last edited by Boldos on 25 December 2020 at 9:03 pm UTC
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Good news indeed (and Merry Christmas, too!) as I'm planning to go with an RX 5600XT, too. I'll be interested to hear what happens when you remove the nV files, as my Steam needed the nV driver installed (i386 libs) in order to even launch.