Update: thank you ALL for all your input! 💐 After some back and forth with @thorry@feddit.org , I decided to simply swap between the two capture cards whenever I need to, in order to make room for my old 3080 and call it a day. This way, I won’t have to spend any more money on this project and I retain the processing power of the 3080 when I start encoding my raw captures.
Here I thought I had been insanely smart to buy a GPU from 2010 for $10 since the CPU is going to do all the encoding anyway. And because my previous card, a honking 3080, wouldn't have allowed for the other two capture cards to be installed, taking up all the real estate.
I have been trying to setup an Artix system on my own for two hours now, but GRUB won't install in CSM mode... I've tried UEFI on GPT, BIOS on MBR, BIOS on GPT... 😅 Boot partition with and without file system... 💀
I'll just buy a more modern yet slim card, I guess? Unless I wake up tomorrow and give researching the issue a chance.
Night👋🔌
Ignore the other guy on this, I have an A770 in my gaming ring and a B60 in my server. The drivers are amazing on Linux, and much better than NVIDIA.
If all you need is encoding, then VAAPI just works. There are some other caveats with the Alchemist series, which is mostly it was made during the transition to
xe, which means you either pick better encoding withi915(default) or better gaming performance withxe. For your use case I'd leave it with the defaulti915, though there are encoding patches forxeif you must use the newer driver. Both drivers are mainlined and officially supported by Intel.I was going to say, Intel GPUs work great on Linux these days. For more modern Intel cards (if not all Intel GPUs), it's also part of the kernel, just like AMD cards.