But i want it to be the same distro 
Nevermind, not relevant to this threat. Thx for the support.
Talk later 
Same distro > difficult it seems. I have never tried this.
Solution:
Don’t buy legacy GPU cards!
The present driver and for some time in the future seems to be supporting the GTX 1600 series and newer. Even the 1030 & 1050 cards are expected to drop support with the next major driver version release.
There is so little difference in cost of legacy cards and the RTX 2000 series cards that it seems shortsighted and pointless to not have the newer and better performing GPUs.
Really? 777€ vs 48€
As stated before, i don’t use it for gaming or heavy rendering, it is just to take the load of my CPU and watch youtube so the nouveau driver is good enough.
FYI: This is done automatically by the installed rpmfusion nvidia RPM.
I’m in the UK and this is what I found very quickly for £179 - ZOTAC NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 ECO SOLO 8GB Ampere Graphics Card LN140043 - ZT-A30500R-10L | SCAN UK
But also look for AMD GPU as the suport for them is builtin to the kernel,
no need to worry about nvidia driver issues.
Installing the nvidia driver from rpmfusion blacklists the nouveau module with an entry like this in the kernel command line for the latest drivers
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core modprobe.blacklist=nouveau,nova_core
and previously like this for the 470 and earlier drivers.
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau modprobe.blacklist=nouveau
That price is for a top end card with 16GB vram.
Very few of us need that performance and a card with 4 to 8GB would cost much less.
However, if you do not need the extra performance then using the nouveau driver with the current GT 710 card should be quite adequate.
Unfortunately watching youtube may task the CPU quite a bit (and slow performace) since all the graphics rendering is done by the CPU instead of the GPU when using the nouveau driver with no hardware acceleration available.
Thx for the info.
I’ve installed the full Cinnamon DE alongside de Gnome DE.
Since Cinnemon is using X i hope that the card will work on this DE with it’s own 470 driver.
Or am i missing something?
Just installing the cinnamon DE does not ensure X is enabled. There may be some other things that need to be installed which are not part of the DE and that are not included with the Workstation edition.
However, that is a good start, and installing the 470xx drivers should work under cinnamon as long as all the other necessary packages are there.
To ensure X is properly supported it might be better to do a clean install of cinnamon then, if you wish, add in the gnome DE. The issue with f43 is not actually the driver, but instead the removal of X11 from the Workstation edition.
I have not tried adding in the cinnamon DE so do not know what all is pulled in, nor if the appropriate parts of X11 are in that group. Doing so would pull in 144 packages for me.
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I just tried installing cinnamon in my old iMac running Workstation with the RPM Fusion Nvidia 470xx driver installed in F43 Workstation. I can choose the desktop environment at login, and switch back and forth.
Initially, nouveau was loaded as a fallback, but after installing and running Cinnamon, the nvidia driver is loaded:
% lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 81920 3
nvidia_modeset 1515520 2 nvidia_drm
nvidia 40759296 121 nvidia_modeset
video 81920 1 nvidia_modeset
If I switch back to Gnome, many programs fail with a stack trace that starts with libnvidia-glcore. Cinnamon appears to be be working after a few tests.
Some programs.e.g., ptyxis and Gnome Software now fail in Workstation. After rebooting, the Nvidia drivers are loaded even if I select Gnome, so getting back to fully functional Gnome would require forcing the system to use nouveau.
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Thanks for testing.
I suspected that would be the case but do not have a system where I could reasonably test it.
It was my understanding that gnome dropped X11 with gnome 49, so that carried over to f43 Workstation, but not necessarily any of the other spins/editions, and that KDE was done similarly but earlier.
Not difficult following this.
It is also necessary to revert an undocumented change to /etc/gdm/custom.conf made by the Nvidia installer to remove the # that goes at the start of the line WaylandEnable=false
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I can send the NVidia card back for free so i will do this since is preffer Gnome and Cosmic desktop .
Looking around and i found this card:
Biostar Radeon RX550 AMD Radeon RX 550 4 GB GDDR5 for 120€
What i read is that this card will fully work straight out of the box with the kernel drivers?
Please advice.
In my opinion, if you want to get a GPU for media playback offloading, you shouldn’t collect more old junk. Get a modern but entry-level GPU that has good, modern codec support. Intel Arc is good for this purpose, you can choose one of these depending on what is available in your area for a good price:
- Intel Arc A310
- Intel Arc A330
- Intel Arc Pro A40
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The below does not cost much more than what you show above and is much more powerful
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What about this one?
Specs look nice and i read good comments about out of the box kernel drivers.
AMD also provides an RPM driver.
The driver already in linux should work without pulling in the other one from AMD.
The specs look much better than the RX550. Athough it is already 6 years old and marked as EOL. It should work for your stated needs.
Comparing the RX550 here
with the WX3200 here
There is a notable improvement. Those specs came from techpowerup.com
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Theoretical performance is secondary if you primarily want to use the GPU for video decoding. I would rather make sure that the important codecs can be decoded with hardware. In addition to H.264, H.265, and VP9, this now also includes AV1.
Any Intel notebook with a Core 11 CPU/iGPU (Intel Tiger Lake) or newer can decode AV1.
For Nvidia, you need at least a RTX 30x0 card (Ampere). The RTX 20x0 (Turing) cards do not support AV1 hardware decoding.
In this case, you need to make sure to disable/block the AV1 codec in Firefox browser. This will force YouTube, for example, to stream VP9 instead of AV1.
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I don’t recommend it. It’s also an old architecture with poor codec support. Doesn’t even decode VP9, much less AV1…
For video encode/decode, at a low price, there is no better option than the Intel Arc GPUs I listed earlier. And they are well supported in Linux out of the box. Linus himself recently ordered an Arc GPU for his new workstation.