Graphic card recomendation libreboot GA-G41M-ES2L
I would like to ask for advice .I would like to buy a graphic card to boot a libreboot GA-G41M-ES2L based desktop . I need support for 2 monitors (2xhdmi e.g.) without using vga onboard. The easiest the more convenient for a newbie like me.
I guess the graphic support for libreboot is limited , because I tried several g. cards unsuccesfully.
Thank you.
If you want to run this board with dedicated GPU, you should compile Coreboot+seaBIOS. Libreboot+GRUB or Coreboot+GRUB don't work for me, just black screen. Also you can use integrated (integrated as on monitor image provider, so only VGA onboard port) and the dedicated GPU as OpenGL render (this works with Libreboot and GRUB but I don't recommend)(and if you play games you must to enable vsync).
You should get some Kepler (7th gen Nvidia GPUs). Personally I tested gtx650ti, gt730 with 2gb GDDR5, and gtx770 4gb. For this board I recommend you something like gt730 with gddr5, gtx750 (non TI). TI version is Maxwell.
The idea is to make it work as Libreboot+grub like a libreboot laptop.
Without libreboot that´s no sense for me to work with this setup, specially with Spectre isssue and everything about
no-libreboot equipments.
I tested gtx750 ti works flawlessly ,but without libreboot
I dont need an fast gpu , GeForce GT 710 2GB for example is very afordable if it could work.
You can compile coreboot+seabios or coreboot+grub. It will be the same thing. Also you can import grub.cfg from libreboot also the grub background. I asked in IRC chat and no one had the answer why grub+dedicated-gpu doesn't work with this board. Maybe I did something wrong.
Don't forget, it is easy to flash via software way that board, but it is hard to recover the brick. If it bricks, you probably need to desolder both chips and flash them. Also if you use coreboot or libreboot, you don't need the backup chip, you clearly can desolder it.
I wrote a notabug request :