firepro v5900

[rube2112]

Hi, Does anyone know of a way to get a better video driver for my firepro v5900? The windows driver will run circles arount the linux driver. I've tried the amd website and I can't get their driver to install. Most recent listed is 2015. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Robb

[Hoser Rob]

You need to post more system info to be sure ... copy/paste this to the terminal and copy/paste the text output here (no screenshots plz):

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inxi -Fxz

However, if that card IS that, you aren't going to be able to get any other drivers for it. The open source driver (radeon) is it. Good thing you couldn't get any of those drivers you dl'ed to install, they almost surely would have broken the video. Getting the newest driver from the mfr's site is a Windows thing, not a good idea in Linux.

[rube2112]

thanks for the reply...here's the output

System:
Host: barchetta Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.9 Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Z420 Workstation v: N/A
serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1589 v: 0.00 serial: <filter>
UEFI [Legacy]: Hewlett-Packard v: J61 v03.94 date: 07/10/2018
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M510 charge: 55%
status: Discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech K520 charge: 70%
status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Xeon E5-1650 0 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 L2 cache: 12.0 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 76612
Speed: 1197 MHz min/max: 1200/3800 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1197 2: 1200
3: 1197 4: 1197 5: 1194 6: 1197 7: 1197 8: 1197 9: 1197 10: 1197 11: 1197
12: 1197
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Cayman LE GL [FirePro V5900] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 05:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD CAYMAN (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.15.0-45-generic LLVM 7.0.0)
v: 4.3 Mesa 18.2.2 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel C600/X79 series High Definition Audio
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
Device-2: AMD Cayman/Antilles HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6930/6950/6970/6990]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 05:00.1
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-45-generic
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: e040 bus ID: 00:19.0
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter type: USB
driver: r8188eu bus ID: 2-1.3:4
IF: wlx000f0076708b state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 28.82 GiB (2.5%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Micron model: MTFDDAK256MBF-1AN15ABHA
size: 238.47 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: MB1000GCWCV size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 203.94 GiB used: 28.68 GiB (14.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
ID-2: /boot size: 461.0 MiB used: 148.8 MiB (32.3%) fs: ext2
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: swap-1 size: 29.80 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 47 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 296 Uptime: 7m Memory: 15.59 GiB used: 1.70 GiB (10.9%)
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.19
inxi: 3.0.27
robb@barchetta:~$

[rube2112]

There has got to be a better driver choice. This same computer running windows will run circles around what its doing in mint. Its almost unuseable

[benjimenez46]

Your only option is to use the last version of linux that the AMD driver supports if you want the full power of the graphic card. Once AMD stops supporting newer versions of linux your graphic card gets left behind and has to use the open source driver which is not as good because AMD does not allow access to all the features of the graphic card for security reasons. It's better just to get a newer graphic card that that still has linux support from AMD.