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Hi,
I know, there are already a few topics about the new AMD graphic cards, that are not supported by Mageia 5.
I bought an AMD RX480 to play on linux or windows, because I still have a dual boot on my PC.
Is there a "basic driver" that would allow me to have a display at my full resolution (1920 x 1080), with no 3D or any gaming capabilities ?
Thanks
Antonio

It's ok, I have the answer to my question.
On the Control center I choose "Radeon 5000 and later ... (vesa/fglrx)" and answered "no" to the question about using the non open source driver.
It simply sets the graphics driver to "vesa", that I used to know well a long time ago. I have no 3D acceleration, so I can't play any modern game, and some power saving functions seem not being available. For example, with windows the fans on the card stop completely when not playing game. With this driver under linux, they run slowly but they never stop. But I have the full resolution and the desktop display is ok.

MGA 6 would be required for the rx series as it uses the AMDGPU driver in the newer kernels. plus the fact that mesa 13 is in MGA 6 so full OpenGL 4.5 support

I'm quite confused about all this drivers : AMDGPU is it the free driver or the proprietary driver ? the AMD denomination for their proprietary driver is AMDGPU-PRO.
Thanks

AMDGPU is the oss driver which uses Mesa

AMDGPU-PRO is AMD's driver with the proprietary opengl/vulkan stacks

Ok, thanks a lot, that's great. I have a few games I'm eager to run with my favorite OS !

tomane wrote:Ok, thanks a lot, that's great. I have a few games I'm eager to run with my favorite OS !

If you are gaming MGA6 with the oss driver is the best tbh.


I dare say mesa 17 won't be long going on the speed at which the packagers have been going

Oops ! I still have a problem: when I reboot, the driver from the file xorg.conf changes to "fbdev" !
I change it back again to "vesa", but each time at reboot it is changed to fbdev !
The xorg.cong is renamed to xorg.conf.old and the line driver is changed from "vesa" to "fbdev" !
Do you know what's that ?
Thank you !

Jump on MGA6

5 does not have the correct driver for the 480 thus defaulting to the fbdev driver. The vesa driver is just a basic one too. Your not going to get any benefit from using that either.

Seriously, just use 6.

Thanks for you advice. I tried to install 6 sta1 in a VM and X11 didn't start. That was the first time I had that kind of problem with a distribution that was supposed to be testable, so that was not encouraging.
My system is very stable at the moment, I'll probably wait some time until a new version of Mageia 6 is ready.

There is a bug with sta1 and VM's so not a good insight to 6.

sta1 is also widely out of date so there will be a good deal of updates, best way to try it is via a live boot, vm's are not great in seeing how it will run on a given hardware config