On 6/9/26 15:27, Dan Ritter wrote:
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.
That sounds great. Thank you.
