What GFX Cards will work with Linux right off

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Recently, I have had lots of troubles getting Linux to play with my main Linux PC and so, instead of having all these issues every time I reinstall, can anyone recommend a GFX Card that I can throw into the PC and that will let me simply access the higher resolutions than 1024x768 right off the bat, just like my older Distros did.

Thanks.
 
Ok, just had a quick look... Seems a busy place, but I will have a proper look shortly, so thanks for that.

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I think that for now, I will just go back to MINT 17.3 KDE.

I want to go to Sabayon but that updates and then ruins my screen mode but at least MINT seemed to stay at a more useable screen rez right from the off, and even once fully updated.

And I have done just that, and the Rez I have chosen, is 1400x1050 which is a stupid rez to be honest, but it only allowed 1680x1200 and not 1680x1050 or 1920x1080 which are visually better... 1400x1050 on this monitor looks just fine for me.
 
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Have you tried the distro's driver manager?
Because when you say "right off the bat" it sounds like you are just installing and updating Linux, and that's it.
You still need to install the graphics drivers afterwards.
 
Of course.
I have gone back to 17.3 and it also defaults to a max of 1024x768, but once I have installed the ATI drivers, it then gives me a much better resolution as I boot up and then when I go back into the display options, I am treated with many more than just 800 and 1024

So yes, ok, "Right off the bat" is a bit too early,. so maybe I should have asked if there are any cards that work with it that require next to zero effort to get working.
 
I think AMD are reworking the Radeon driver, there is a Beta I think but its not istalled by default.

The old driver does not work with the new Kernels. Mint 17.3 has an old Kernel which supports the old driver. I am using this for Steam.

As far as I know Nvidia is the best option at the moment. There have been some issues with Intel graphics on Skylake systems as well.
 
PhilGQ said:
As far as I know Nvidia is the best option at the moment. There have been some issues with Intel graphics on Skylake systems as well.
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i have lots of sleep problems with nvidia, still stuck with 362 drivers anything newer don't work properly.
if it wasn't for booting into windows to play games i'd have stuck with AMD and open source drivers.
 
Hmm.. Others have said similar.

I only have a couple of GTX 470's and to be honest, I have not really bothered to try them, mostly because my main Linux PC is my lovely little AMD A10 in a Globalwin 130 case and while the case will take the 470, it does NOT leave room for dust never mind swinging moggies, but also that I have a weird sort of allergy to mixing AMD/ATI and nVidia... Dont know why, I just have, and so since most of my Mobos are ATI cChipset, I mostly stick with ATI GFX on them. I do have ATI and nV mixed, but not on machines that I use everyday.

Plus, I have had great results with ATI in Linux Machines... I knopw nVidia in the past have been better, but this has changed a great deal, and especially as AMD seem to support Linux a great deal these more than in the past.
 
Recently it seems AMD have been doing a pretty good job with the bleeding edge kernels etc and the AMDGPU/AMDGPU-Pro setup, they had release day support for the RX480 in both the proprietary as well as open-source drivers. Gonna take a while for that to filter down to the common distro's and their (understandably) 'old' kernels though.
 
Intel integrated GPUs should work out of the box.

AMD cards up to and including the R# 200 (Volcanic Islands) family work with the FOSS Radeon driver. The package is often known as xserver-xorg-video-ati, xserver-xorg-video-radeon, or xf86-video-ati. Here is a really good list in Ubuntu, other distros will vary https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver

No idea about Nvidia.

Which GPU are you thinking of OP? You've got several in your sig.

Edit: from your other thread, ATI 4590, 6850, 7770? Those should all be fine with the open source radeon driver.
 
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deadite66 said:
i have lots of sleep problems with nvidia, still stuck with 362 drivers anything newer don't work properly.
if it wasn't for booting into windows to play games i'd have stuck with AMD and open source drivers.
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Running the latest drivers on Arch, suspend doesn't work (hasn't worked ever I don't think) and no audio through DP/HDMI after the display has turned off. Both easy to sort and not an inconvenience for me, but functionality that doesn't work nonetheless.

No FOSS driver support for any of the recent cards. All proprietary.
 
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Running the latest drivers on Arch, suspend doesn't work (hasn't worked ever I don't think) and no audio through DP/HDMI after the display has turned off. Both easy to sort and not an inconvenience for me, but functionality that doesn't work nonetheless.

No FOSS driver support for any of the recent cards. All proprietary.
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I had the variations of this problem too depending on distro (Mint/Ubuntu/Antergos. Either no sound or crackly echo, most of the games I was trying would not start at all.

I have R9 280.

I got the old driver to install on Antergos but an update broke it. Went to Mint 17.3 and have stuck there. Not risking an update, until I have time to mess about if it goes wrong.
 
I ought to mention, the fix for the audio issue is to switch to another TTY and back (Ctrl+Alt+F1-7), just in case anybody else encounters this.
 
My current preferred Mobo is an ITX jobbie... A Gigabyte f2a85xn WIFI... I think? LOL

It has an AMD A10 APU in it, and as of right this moment, I am running it with a Saphire 7770 OC as this is a great all-rounder card.

I have falledn in love with the GlobalWin 130 case that I have it in. So much so, that I have in fact thrown together a second ITX setup, but slightly different, in that I have an AsRock H77M-ITX Mobo in a GlobalWin 120 and that has an I3 in that... I am hunting for an I5/I7 instead to give it more guts, and since the 120 wont take a 120mm AIO like the 130 does, I may, if it comes to it, swap the innards over and go with the Intel seup as opposed to the AMD... It depends.

The I3 however, along with that AsRock Mobo does actually have Intel GFX on it and I may have a play, but its currently my Hackintosh and it works flawlessly as that.

now, an addition to my issues with the resolution, I am using a multi KVM that is unfortunately VGA.

I have however managed to by-pass the VGA limitation, in that what I have done, is bought some HDMI to VGA adapters, and of course VGA back to HDMI and its taken me a few models with varying success, but I have now managed to get some great resolutions! - Have I just posted this in an earlier post? Ah well, I done it here too!

Its not the best solution, but it has got my systems to work very well with the KVM and give the Linux PC a good resolution. I will admit that with 1920x1080, the screen goes seriously bad and seems to go blank and only show the screen for half a second every something like 10 seconds, and 1650x1050 makes it flicker a lot, and so I have opted for 1400x1080 and thats a great compromise and I am more than happy with that.

I have no need for any audio from the HDMI as I use either the O/B or a SoundCard.
In fact, I have NEVER bothered with it to be honest? Not even for testing purposes? I think I will have a mess about with it just for a giggle in a bit... Under Windows of course LOL. Actually the AsRock lets me switch off the HDMI Audio and no other board I have does that? not that I have seen anyway... and I often giggle when I am crossfiring cards, that I get so many audio devices showing up.

Anyway, Im off topic so... Snip!
 
It's going to depend on the distro. If you buy a 1070 but the distro you're using is on older drivers, it's unlikely to work correctly unless you upgrade the drivers (although it should work well enough for you to do so).
 
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