Dell Precision Tower 3420 SFF With Radeon FirePro WS2100 GPU
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Dell Precision Tower 3420 SFF With Radeon FirePro WS2100 GPU
For my birthday my7 father gifted me $2,000 which i took $1,700 which I put towards The Workstation That I mentioned in the title.
How ever upon booted into the OEM (DELL) Installed imaged of Unumtu 14.04 Trusty and of course ti attempted to install the amdgpu-pro drivers from Amd/ATIS Linux Driver portal which of course Brole Wayland and X org upon first reboot after installation of the AMD ATI Radeon FirePro WS2100 Drivers.
free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 31G 3.8G 6.2G 112M 21G 27G
Swap: 59G 0B 59G
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Over the past month I have tried ever distribution from Fedora, anteragos,RHEL and Debian/Ubuntu. Trying to debug AMD ATI's horrendously coded Proprietary drivers for their Mid range FirePro WS2100 series Proprietary drivers.
for a new machine, you need a new distro.
if ubuntu floats your boat, you could use 17.10, which goes EOL this July, or you could wait for 18.04 LTS, which comes out this month. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
I've returned to the dark side (Windows) world Because I Needed the full color gamete and #D acceleration capabilities aof my AMD/ATI FirePro WS2100 Professional Series Video/3d accelerator card as I do quite alot of virtualization for beta&alpha testing of Linux/BSD Distributions prior to their releases.
for new hardware, you can also try archlinux. gpu driver support and such is probably best because
a) they roll with upstream
b) they don't care so much about stallmanism
it's much more stable then some people want to make you believe, and much less masochistic, too.
I'm a little confused. The computer came with Linux preinstalled and fully supported by Dell, right? And you got rid of it why? Did you call Dell's support line for help with the video problem? Just trying to understand.
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