Thanks! Too bad about the trade....
- Evan On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 8:19 PM Peter King via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/29/24 3:36 PM, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > > Hi all. > > Although I really don't want to, I need to upgrade the graphics card on my > main desktop. > I currently have an AMD RX 6600 but some of the applications I want to > work with, notably in AI and content creation, either don't work well on > AMD cards or not at all. > > For decades I've stuck to AMD cards -- partly because of their better > track record with Linux drivers, but also because of my affinity for ATI in > Markham. Alas, though, I must get something from Team Green now. Leaning > towards an RTX 3060 12GB, that should be enough for me. > > If I'd seen this a week earlier I would have proposed a trade -- I just > took out an MSI GeForce RTX 2060 to replace it with an AMD RX 6600. > > I can't help with your main question, unfortunately, but I can tell you > why I chucked my Nvida card, which is that there seems to be a nasty > interaction bug between the nonproprietary nouveau drivers and the current > iteration of mesa, which leads to all manner of complications, mostly in > never coming out of suspend but sometimes even not booting the console. > (In each case using ssh to get in to the computer found everything else > running perfectly.) This all happened under current Arch Linux. > > Most likely you aren't interested in the nouveau drivers. I don't know > how extensive the interactive bug with mesa is, but you might check that > out before you take the leap. I have never used the nvidia proprietary > drivers so I have no views about whether they have problems. > > -- > Peter King [email protected] > Department of Philosophy > 170 St. George Street #521 > The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc > Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 > CANADA > http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ > > ========================================================================= > GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42 > > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56
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