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I'm glad someone brought this up. I'm about to build a new rig and was hoping to make it compatible with Looking Glass (I can buy any hardware I need since it's

I'm glad someone brought this up. I'm about to build a new rig and was hoping to make it compatible with Looking Glass (I can buy any hardware I need since it's a fresh build), but I can't make sense of the hardware requirements. I was planning on an AMD GPU, since nvidia famously has bad Linux support and I don't want the driver headaches. BUT – all the hardware lists I come across warn you not to buy AMD GPUs because they are buggy: https://passthroughpo.st/vfio-increments/ https://passthroughpo.st/vfio-increments/ So which is it? Do I have to just put up with the driver problems on the linux side?

rubyn00bie 6y ago
You'll notice they specifically say "passthrough gpu." What you use on the Linux side and what you passthrough don't have to be the same and probably shouldn't be. I'd optimize for the use cases you have, also as much as I truly hate to give this recommendation: youtube has a lot of resources on shit like this (because I hate having to watch a video for something I could read). Also, you might want to really think about the GPU and its use-cases, newer isn't always better, because there are some specific ones you can buy that'll let you also run another OS 10 in a VM effortlessly :) At the end of the day this all pretty much powered by Qemu, KVM, and virtio. So if you can't find a resources for "looking glass" then just go to one of the the sources above...
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notyourday 6y ago
Prop nVidia has fantastic Linux support. I have been running GTX 1060 for about 3 years driving 5 4K screens on Debian 8, 9, and now 10, including video playback with no tearing. Rarely when a card experiences a crash after being fed a corrupt h264 chuck, it freezes for 10-20 seconds but it recovers by itself. The open source driver... the open source driver crashes at least one a week driving two monitors. I gave up on it.

rubyn00bie 6y ago

You'll notice they specifically say "passthrough gpu." What you use on the Linux side and what you passthrough don't have to be the same and probably shouldn't be. I'd optimize for the use cases you have, also as much as I truly hate to give this recommendation: youtube has a lot of resources on shit like this (because I hate having to watch a video for something I could read). Also, you might want to really think about the GPU and its use-cases, newer isn't always better, because there are some specific ones you can buy that'll let you also run another OS 10 in a VM effortlessly :) At the end of the day this all pretty much powered by Qemu, KVM, and virtio. So if you can't find a resources for "looking glass" then just go to one of the the sources above...

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notyourday 6y ago

Prop nVidia has fantastic Linux support. I have been running GTX 1060 for about 3 years driving 5 4K screens on Debian 8, 9, and now 10, including video playback with no tearing. Rarely when a card experiences a crash after being fed a corrupt h264 chuck, it freezes for 10-20 seconds but it recovers by itself. The open source driver... the open source driver crashes at least one a week driving two monitors. I gave up on it.