Which driver would support 10-bit depth monitor for Firepro V5900
Hi everyone,
I am considering replacing the NVIDIA card with a used Firepro V5900 because I wish to make use of the 10-bit color depth of a monitor (which my old GT8600 GT can't handle). I wonder if the generic drivers would handle the 10-bit color LUT or do I need to install AMD Catalyst. I am still at Slackware 14.1 but with the 14.2 glibc and gcc. Thanks |
According to TechPro website, you can download the driver from them. See the "Linux" item on the left side of the screen.
Apparently, this card has been around for a while. There's a chance its already supported in the kernel. This link says that it is, but I'm not familiar with the site. |
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I'm not sure if the generic driver would accommodate the FirePro V5900 or not. Like frankbell already said it may already be support in the kernel. Here's a few links that might help you and others that help you. http://www.amd.com/en-gb/products/gr...repro-3d/5900# http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=FirePro http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ro_v5900&num=1 https://hashcat.net/forum/archive/in...read-2357.html http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/DRM_RADEON.html Any AMD Catalyst that I've installed in the past on my Linux boxes were buggy. http://support.amd.com/en-us/downloa...401#pro-driver Maybe try the fglrx driver and compile against the kernel? https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...6450-on-opengl I think the driver is already included. Run this to see: Code:
ls /var/log/packages/xf86-video-amdgpu* Hope that helps.;) |
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I installed a used AMD Firepro V5900 and I could check a few points for myself.
I also checked the Firepro V5900 in Windows 10 with the AMD drivers and the 10-bit color depth set. I downloaded the trial version of Zoner, an app that claims support for 10-bit depth monitors but I didn't find the 10-bit option is Zoner. Maybe that was removed in the demo version. In the end, I don't have 10-bit color depth support. |
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3. AMDGPU only supports (most) GCN based cards. From some limited (read: quick, possibly inaccurate) research, I believe your card is based on the Cayman architecture, which was introduced before GCN and thus, doesn't support it. |
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