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My switch to AMD and the problems that ensued

fabian.weik@protonmail.com (Fabian Weik) — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:36:29 +0100

As you can tell from my previous posts, I do not like NVIDIA. That is because I had a lot of issues with the drivers in the past. Also, recently the card started producing black flashes (see this post). So I finally made the switch to an AMD graphics card.

The setup was rather smooth. OpenSUSE has two options for open source drivers for AMD cards and I chose the Radeon driver. The linked page lists a few commands that have to be run. Only three of the commands were applicable for me.

The Problem with NVIDIA

fabian.weik@protonmail.com (Fabian Weik) — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 20:10:07 +0200

I wanted to do this post for a while now, but I have been caught up in my thesis. Today I handed in the digital version and am now waiting to hand in the physical copy.

Black Flickering

So, about a month ago, my screen started flickering. It was only the top third of the screen, and the flickers came in short bursts. Nonetheless, it was annoying.

See, I am running an NVIDIA graphics card. Big Mistake.
So I already knew what the cause of the problem was. Well, not exactly, but I knew the NVIDIA driver update was to blame. I searched around the internet a little and finally found a forum post. It seemed like an update that I just received — 530 — caused problems for many other NVIDIA graphics cards…

The Thing With Window Managers

fabian.weik@protonmail.com (Fabian Weik) — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:27:13 +0200

Presenting with Personal Laptops

Last semester, I was part of a seminar where every participant had to do a presentation. Everybody had to use their own laptops to display the slides on the projector. This was done for the convenience of the supervisors, presumably. One guy was running Linux with a tiling window manager - I think it was i3. His setup did not play well with the projector. A supervisor ended up lending him his laptop to present, so it was not the end of the world but still embarrassing, I imagine.