Looking to stay with AMD graphics. What is currently in your computers (desktops) with 16x port. I had nothing but trouble trying to get that last card to work. I want this card to work with both windows and linux 24.04.xx LTS. I will be upgrading from 22.04 LTS when I get a new card. Part that throws everything into wack is 2008 Mac Pro. Currently using 256MB msi radeon 5600xt without any problems what so ever with stock drivers. so!
Simply:
-Dual boot windows and Linux 24.04.xx LTS
-Already in your desktop and working with 24.04.xx LTS
-AMD Card 4-8gb
-Dont give a rats A** if it works with OSX or has the apple boot logo***
-would be nice if you upgraded from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 without any hiccups
tkn!!! you found me again! Correction I tried to edit the post it is rv630/2600xt***** sold with the mac. I have always had to use this card as a backup to get to my mac startup logo/UEFI (holding option key) boot screen. It has worked with ubuntu 20.04LTS, 21.04 , and 22.04 LTS always.
I have given up with the rx550 completely with ubuntu mate. I will no longer work with this card, it has become a project i gave up on. Facts are I got it to work, whatever genius i did I will no longer think about. Whatever happened when I went to 22…..deleted my genius to get the drivers to work or somehow overrode something i created. Its gone. Every time i want to get to windows to play my simulation game, i have to get down on the ground and switch graphics cards. No more. We will no longer talk of this devilish card.
I am currently on my laptop for daily use, Pro not near me. I will be moving on. Have you any ideas?
My thinking is that its probably as simple as you just need an older kernel. RX550 support came in with kernel 4.15 and there's probably a good chance the 4.xx kernels would still work on your old Xeon. There's a tiny chance you could modify newer kernels to support your CPU + RX550 combo - but patching and building a kernel is serious work!
Sometimes you just have to forgo the newer packaged kernels to keep old hardware running. Thats what I've been doing on my 14 year old laptop with a GeForce 780M. [EDIT]Correction; 360M[/EDIT].
I have forgotten about this!!! I know after this post I had DL the SSE instructions straight from INTEL and I was trying to get the kernel or start the SSE instructions for the processors straight from the boot process but I was not linking them correctly. I was also looking into an emulator. I kept using “legacy” within my last (years) posts. so here we go all over again.
Explanation: because my mind has been all over the place in these last (years) posts!
I started this whole shinanigans on Ubuntu 16 with my Pro 1,1 2x2.66 with 32efi 64cpu ( https://mattgadient.com/) though I ran into EFI mode problems and installed 16 in BIOS MODE I believe with radeon drivers, not the usual drivers Ubuntu was picking. (this is where the word legacy has been mixed in throughout this process). I believe i used old legacy drivers without messing with kernels and drivers from Mesa but I could be wrong. I also had to go in and switch around in between lightdm display manager etc modes, even go in depending and change the grub display size. Keeping my progress I always had to (which i was warned somewhere) to only upgrade “add on top of existing linux” during installation. I went from 16—>18—>20.04LTS—>21.04. 21 stopped support. (After all that i bought a Pro’ 3,1 2x2.8 and just switched guts everything working) I upgraded to the 3,1 bc it was 64efi 64cpu.
I manually upgraded to 22.04LTS and back to the black screen of death. FML. I had the 550 legacy radeon drivers installed/configured/working SOMEHOW ALTHOUGH i had never in all of anything i had done heard of SSE INTEL processor instructions (which tkn caught and has made apparent once again). I never switched kernels either, or “backdated” them ever. I found a loophole or somewhere created something in which I never documented online nor in my findings at my computer table. I was so happy it got working I just went with it.
I will be reading through this all over again, he has caught me and pointing me back to the TA DA/DUH moment I never realized somehow I had got around in the first place. Doing a quick search I believe I installed in BIOS mode bc that directed the driver to find the GPU and it would start up. 22.04 installation would not even open the driver. This of course being in EFI installation where tkn again has pointed me to the problem. The problem is my stubborness that I had it working without all this SSE instruction problems. SO!!……
-I need to re-read about these SSE problems and decide some things…. or just get another computer although there is nothing wrong with the 3,1 just the exact problem I want to avoid which is graphics problems . Nothing else has given me a hard time.
I will re-read through all of this!! I’m sure you saw my post and said….WHY is this guy still fooling with this, did he not read anything I wrote?? Yes i did, and I DL and started fooling with it and was trying to get 22.04 efi to start boot process and use INTEL instructions for the GPU. I was doing something incorrectly and never got there. I believe I left off with just trying to see if the boot was linking even through I was using the 2600xt and it was not…..
There has been a lot going on in my life, and completely forgot about efi and SSE instructions, giving up the 550 will not change my problem just continue my stubbornness. Just getting the 4,1/5,1 Pro’ will get the processors I need. You are probably also wondering why i just dont make a hackintosh or drop the mac board being I dont use mac anyways. Because I work with what I have and this stupidity of this project interests me. I like Tinkering with things, and this will be a satisfying project.
To be brutally honest tkn this also is a hobby that takes up hours of my time instead of drinking, for I am an alcoholic and this is a project. I need a project. This keeps me sober. This is the facts. Please be understanding through the stupidity of this project, for I will find a way. I will.
******************For the time being I will read through everything again*************
I know after this post I had DL the SSE instructions straight from INTEL and I was trying to get the kernel or start the SSE instructions for the processors straight from the boot process but I was not linking them correctly. I was also looking into an emulator. I kept using “legacy” within my last (years) posts. so here we go all over again.