[CALUG] Looking for advice

[Tim Spangler]

Out of box Fedora 29 Desktop handles the nvidia cards with the nouveau driver, and I can confirm it works fine with a single monitor at 2560x1600 resolution (Dell 3011) on install.  I have half a dozen different monitors here at the house, so I can certainly try having a 3 monitor setup, but given the ease of setup with one monitor, I don’t expect a problem just for desktop use.  

 

Using 3d acceleration (like playing games) or PCIE Passthrough is a different story, but that doesn’t seem to be part of the original requirement.

 

-Tim

 

From: Bryan Smith [mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 11:20 PM
To: Tim Spangler <tspang at jefnet.com>
Cc: Ainsley <ainsley.gibson at gmail.com>; Wes Westhaver <wes at westhaver.com>; calug at unknownlamer.org
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Looking for advice

 

If one is not using the AMD GPU functionality, then it doesn't matter. x86-64 is x86-64, AMD invented it, and it just runs the OS like any x86-64 would. 

 

The GPUs in this case are 100% nVidia, 0% AMD. 

 

Now trying to support nVidia without their proprietary kernel module is a serious PITA. There are serious limitations, and forget various vector processing options. 

 

Just how nVidia is playing the game. 

 

- bjs

 

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 16:10 Tim Spangler <tspang at jefnet.com <mailto:tspang at jefnet.com>  wrote:

Hi Ainsley,

I have a Ryzen 2700X sitting here with 2 Nvidia cards running on Fedora 29 without a problem, so I don't think there will be significant problems for using a NVidia card for basic display output. 

That said, trying to blacklist one of them and using PCI Express Pass through to have direct access from a KVM VM is proving to quite be challenging.  

-Tim

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From: CALUG [mailto:calug-bounces at unknownlamer.org <mailto:calug-bounces at unknownlamer.org> ] On Behalf Of Ainsley
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 4:42 PM
To: Wes Westhaver <wes at westhaver.com <mailto:wes at westhaver.com> >
Cc: calug at unknownlamer.org <mailto:calug at unknownlamer.org> 
Subject: Re: [CALUG] Looking for advice

Hi Wes,

The latest Linux kernel has builtin support for the AMD GPUs without any special firmware downloads. I’m not sure if Nvidia silk requires that you download drivers from their site. I know historically they did not play well with Linux? 

Several of the more modern GPUs will support 2, 3 or 4 monitors. 


Ainsley
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> On Feb 12, 2019, at 13:45, Wes Westhaver <wes at westhaver.com <mailto:wes at westhaver.com> > wrote:
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to purchase a desktop computer, install Linux (Ubuntu or 
> Mint?), and attach two (possibly three) monitors to it. Can anyone 
> here provide guidance on what desktop systems and video cards are well 
> supported by Linux?
> 
> I'm probably going to purchase some refurbished equipment from 
> PCLiquidations (https://www.pcliquidations.com/) since I'm on a tight 
> budget.
> 
> Until now, I've only had experience with using Linux as a server 
> (mostly headless). But I want to get away from MS-Windows and go completely Linux.
> Any advice would be very much appreciated.
> 
> -Wes
> 
> 
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