On 2020-12-29 at 14:53, Romualdas Taluntis wrote: > I have no official sources on this, but if you'd do an internet > search for "new gpu legacy bios" you'd see a lot of people having the > same issue, asking for guidance on buying a new GPU for an old PC, or > wondering why they weren't better warned about such an incompatibility.
It is, to be fair, a good question. > I personally also had the same problem and found a rule of thumb when > upgrading non UEFI PC with a new video card: use Nvidia (up to and > including 10 series, newer also have same problem). I have a hard "no NVIDIA" rule, based both on bad experiences dealing with their driver / etc. stack back in the day (when I built the computer *preceding* this one, i.e. sometime in the oughts), and on an objection to the proprietarian nature of their approach to Linux drivers. Last I was aware, AMD and Intel alike have Good Enough driver support on Linux via fully-open code, and I want to encourage that rather than NVIDIA's closed approach. Looks like I'm due to build a new machine! All that's left - aside from saving up the funds - is to determine the specifics. Starting with whether I acquire a new case (suitable to hold everything I've got now and potentially more), or reuse the same one (thereby making it impossible to run both computers temporarily side-by-side). I've been concerned for the past few years anyway that the secondary SATA chip on this motherboard (which brings it up to 8 ports rather than the chipset-provided 6) is tending towards failure; it takes 30+ seconds (if not over a minute) to pass its drive-detection-etc. checks during that stage of POST, unless the computer has been shut off for long enough that the components have all cooled as far as they're going to. Everything seems to work fine once things are booted, but it's still a concerning symptom. I'll also need to decide whether to go with modern Debian, or revert it to sysvinit analogously to what I currently run, or just go with Devuan outright. Or try another distro, perhaps one more suited to running what I want to run the way I want it; I've been meaning to check out Gentoo for perhaps literally decades by now... though it'd be a shame to drop the culture and environment I've gotten so used to by this point. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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