Martin Read composed on 2017-04-05 13:51 (UTC+0100):
I'm currently using an AMD "APU" system with integrated Radeon HD6530D graphics (yes, that's a component from 2011; the computer still works fine). This is kind of awkward when considering moving to stretch:
* The DKMS-support package for the fglrx proprietary driver will not be available for stretch. * The radeon free driver *still* isn't on par with fglrx on my hardware. fglrx gave me OpenGL 4.4; radeon gives me 3.3 and visibly inferior performance. * The amdgpu free driver (which I'm guessing won't be in stretch except via backports anyway) doesn't support my hardware.
I don't have the money to replace my computer right now, so I'm looking at the number-and-letter soup of PCI Express discrete graphics cards. Any recommendations? Not looking for some all-singing all-dancing thing with seventeen fans, just something that - with the drivers available for stretch - will get me at least as much performance and capability as my current chip achieves with its proprietary driver.
Have you tried removing all gfxchip-specific drivers? That should result in your 6530 using the integral modeset(0) driver, which has become the default for Intel gfxchips and works for most NVidia and AMD/ATI.
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