the r7 is a bit power hungry for this pc, that is a htpc and my daily driver, the other is a nvidia gpu but i like it because it is fanless
i heard it is no longer supported by nvidia on linux, but i dont know the status on current fedora 43, i heard many years ago about noveau drivers but never touched them
my goal is not use the vega 8 apu in this old cpu, so i recover the ram shared with the apu and put to use those gpus, since i only have 8 gbs of ram in this pc
The GT 710 is not supported by modern nvidia drivers. It should be well supported by the default driver that comes with fedora (nouveau) which is open source.
If you were to insist on using the nvidia driver (older versions) it would also require that you use xorg for your desktop and fedora has ceased support for X11 on both Workstation and KDE releases.
I think you would be happy using the GT 710 and the nouveau drivers.
i didnt waited for reply, lol, it booted, no questions asked, it got to the login screen, then i put my password, i got black screen
i pressed reset button, again login, then kwin crashes and recovers, like 3 times, while that, it killed wifi connection and then black screen, i gave up on the gt 710
the r7 250, i tried to use it, it shows image corruption like it was a vram problem, but this doesnt happen on windows, perhaps is just damaged
You probably could avoid that and login normally (using the GT 710) by adding nomodeset to the kernel command line.
When booting while the grub menu is shown you would press e to edit the boot parameters, then on the line that begins with linux you could add nomodeset and continue booting to test if that works. (This is a one time change for the current boot only and will not be effective on the next boot.)
If it does then you can make the change permanent so it is always in the command line by using grubby. sudo grubby --args='nomodeset' --update-kernel=ALL
i never see the grub menu when i boot, not unless i reset the pc 3 or 4 times or turn it off multiple times, and that should not be done, because the filesystem might get damaged afik
i never used the modeset option before, by reading about it, it says it forces nvidia driver to do something, but if i am not using the nvidia driver, what would such command do with noveau?
tbh, with so much problems, because something tells me modeset will not fix kwin dying while having the right resolution and refresh rate and wifi dying with that gpu plugged just screams stop, i just closed the case and re enabled the apu
i will put back in the box the gpus and forget about them until i sell more recycled material
