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Do I actually need to do anything to go from GeForce to Radeon? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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My GTX-1080 is getting a little long in the tooth, I'm thinking of going all AMD on my Linux Mint gaming rig here, but...is there anything I need to do or install or uninstall to switch to an AMD card from an Nvidia one?

I've never done this before on a Linux system; I've got my Intel/Radeon laptop, and my Ryzen/GeForce desktop and that's most of my Linux experience.

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[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Aside from removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf because I had generated one via Nvidia's XServer settings - nope! The custom config there did prevent X from loading properly, switched to a tty to delete the config, restarted, and was perfectly fine afterwards.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You...deleted xorg.conf? eyebrow noises

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 10 points 1 year ago

Yes. X11 these days usually auto-configures on its own (to my understanding, at least) - when you generate one with Nvidia's settings it will add some stuff that is specific to the Nvidia driver, and thus once the card/drivers isn't present, then X11 can't start.

I had removed the drivers before swapping out the card in preparation, so I'm not 100% sure if said proprietary extensions doesn't load because of the lack of drivers, or the lack of the card itself - probably both to be honest.

But either way, X11 wasn't affected by the removal of the custom config, and there wasn't ever one present until I made one via nvidia-settings (other than, it started working of course).

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