Eben King wrote: > Hi, I have Debian 12 "Bookworm" currently, and my video card is an Nvidia > GTX 970. While I'm happy with its speed, I'm not happy with the proprietary > nature of its driver, nor its brokenness (1). So, I seek a replacement card > whose driver is in the mainline kernel (2). I've heard AMD and Intel GPUs > are generally not bad. Do you have any further recommendations or > anti-recommendation? Thanks. > > 1: Its fans don't work, so I wrote a script to modulate the case fans and > CPU throttle based on its temperature. > > 2: If you wish to recommend a particular card, keep in mind that cheap is > imperative (like <$150 cheap), used is OK, and I have three monitors.
I'm using an AMD RX580 to drive a 4K, a 1920x1200 and a 1920x1080 monitor on Debian stable. They typically come with one HDMI and 3 DisplayPort connectors; there are reasonably cheap connectors for DP->HDMI or DVI. Newegg has some available in the $110-140 range, mostly from vendors nobody has ever heard of. Uses the open amdgpu driver and the firmware-amd-graphics package. -dsr-
