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newin
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 Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 5:33 am Post subject: x11-drivers/ati-drivers deleted ? |
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Hi,
I'm a game developer using Unreal Engine 4 everyday and make my own game engine.
I always used fglrx and it worked pretty well but a few month ago "x11-drivers/ati-drivers" gets deleted from portage. Not just frozen or anything just simply deleted.
My problem is: I have a GCN 1.0 (AMD R9M370X - Southern Islands - Cape Verde) which doesn't work with amdgpu (yet?) and according to benchmarks fglrx is still faster than radeonsi.
I also need opengl 4.5 (which include important features like bindless textures) to work but the stable mesa can't give me more than 4.4 at best.
In addition if I follow the official documentation:
wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Fglrx
It says that I should use AMDGPU-PRO but it's a userland driver based on amdgpu for the kernel land and like I said amdgpu doesn't work with my GPU...
On the amdgpu page is says that my GPU is supported but I tried with linux 4.9, 4.10 and 4.11 I always get a black screen immediately after the driver gets mounted (yes I did enable SI support in the kernel).
My situation is kind of annoying I have to use a mesa, a Xorg-server and a ati-driver that doesn't exist anymore on portage.
I want to stick to "official" drivers so what do I should do ? Download fglrx Xorg and mesa from official website and work without portage ? freeze my portage ? Move to amdgpu with an "unstable" mesa ? If I should move to amdgpu and my GPU should be supported by it what did I missed ?
PS: It looks weird to see no one on internet complaining about that so I'm very sorry if that deletion was my fault...
PPS: I hesitate to post in "Kernel & Hardware" but there is a lot of userland stuff and from where I stand my GPU isn't supported.
[Moderator edit: fixed [url] tags. -Hu]
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 5:51 am Post subject: |
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You can use a overlay for have ati-drivers (see here), but I think you can have version problem with xorg
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 6:30 am Post subject: |
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Well, using layman didn't crossed my mind... That's good work around.
Would be great if someone can give some advice if I want to go the "official way" and/or about what is happening with amdgpu and GCN1.0 cards (in the case some GCN 1.0 guys like me read this).
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| fglrx is dead for a long time, older cards are supposed to use the much better radeon opensource driver. |
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shrike
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 11:39 am Post subject: |
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newin,
Until recently I was using amdgpu with a GCN 1.0 card (Oland). I reverted to radeonsi due to loss of audio_over_hdmi with 4.9 kernel.
Concerning black screen issue pls ensure CONFIG_FB is builtin.
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newin
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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| shrike wrote: |
Until recently I was using amdgpu with a GCN 1.0 card (Oland). I reverted to radeonsi due to loss of audio_over_hdmi with 4.9 kernel.
Concerning black screen issue pls ensure CONFIG_FB is builtin.
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Which kernel do you have ?
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fglrx is dead for a long time, older cards are supposed to use the much better radeon opensource driver.
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I don't know what you call "much better" but from my experience radeon was always the slowest and was at very least 5 years late. Yes fglrx was unstable sometimes but it was so rare...
But yeah I think I will switch to amdgpu someday to get at least vulkan through RADV and OpenGL 4.6 in the future.
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shrike
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Which kernel do you have ? |
I upgraded 4.4 to 4.9.
Current kernel:
| Code: | | Linux nehalem 4.9.29-gentoo #1 SMP Sun May 21 08:14:15 EDT 2017 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3565 @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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newin
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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| shrike wrote: | | Quote: | | Which kernel do you have ? |
I upgraded 4.4 to 4.9.
Current kernel:
| Code: | | Linux nehalem 4.9.29-gentoo #1 SMP Sun May 21 08:14:15 EDT 2017 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU W3565 @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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Well, I just tried 4.11 and 4.12 under different configuration and it still doesn't work.
If I put amdgpu in buildin it freese before openRC.
If I put amdgpu in module it blackscreen after openRC.
here is a `cat /usr/src/linux-4.11.2-gentoo-r1/.config | grep AMD`
| Code: | # CONFIG_X86_AMD_PLATFORM_DEVICE is not set
CONFIG_CPU_SUP_AMD=y
CONFIG_X86_MCE_AMD=y
# CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_AMD_POWER is not set
CONFIG_MICROCODE_AMD=y
CONFIG_AMD_NUMA=y
# CONFIG_X86_AMD_FREQ_SENSITIVITY is not set
CONFIG_AMD_NB=y
CONFIG_PATA_AMD=y
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_AMD is not set
# CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_AMD is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_AMD756 is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_AMD8111 is not set
CONFIG_AGP_AMD64=y
CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU=m
CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_SI=y
CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK=y
CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_USERPTR=y
# CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_GART_DEBUGFS is not set
CONFIG_DRM_AMD_ACP=y
CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU=y
# CONFIG_AMD_IOMMU_V2 is not set
# CONFIG_MCE_AMD_INJ is not set |
| shrike wrote: |
Concerning black screen issue pls ensure CONFIG_FB is builtin.
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`cat /usr/src/linux-4.11.2-gentoo-r1/.config | grep CONFIG_FB | head -n 1`
That wasn't the problem.
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shrike
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newin,
My 4.9.16 amdgpu .config file:
http://bpaste.net/show/9326643d0c76
grep drm dmesg-4.9.16
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[ 0.646584] device: 'inject_addrmatch': device_add
[ 0.646588] bus: 'mc0': add device inject_addrmatch
[ 0.646592] PM: Adding info for mc0:inject_addrmatch
[ 2.347625] device class 'drm': registering
[ 2.347637] [drm] Initialized
[ 2.378612] [drm] amdgpu kernel modesetting enabled.
[ 2.378876] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (OLAND 0x1002:0x6610 0x1458:0x22BF 0x00).
[ 2.378887] [drm] register mmio base: 0xF4000000
[ 2.378888] [drm] register mmio size: 262144
[ 2.378941] [drm] GPU post is not needed
[ 2.379204] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=2048M, BAR=256M
[ 2.379204] [drm] RAM width 128bits DDR3
[ 2.379215] [drm] amdgpu: 2048M of VRAM memory ready
[ 2.379215] [drm] amdgpu: 6033M of GTT memory ready.
[ 2.379302] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 1544468, num gpu pages 1544468
[ 2.382130] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 2.382131] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[ 2.382189] [drm] amdgpu: irq initialized.
[ 2.382200] [drm] probing gen 2 caps for device 8086:340a = 3b3d02/0
[ 2.382219] [drm] Internal thermal controller with fan control
[ 2.382227] [drm] amdgpu: dpm initialized
[ 2.382318] [drm] AMDGPU Display Connectors
[ 2.382319] [drm] Connector 0:
[ 2.382319] [drm] HDMI-A-1
[ 2.382320] [drm] HPD1
[ 2.382320] [drm] DDC: 0x194c 0x194c 0x194d 0x194d 0x194e 0x194e 0x194f 0x194f
[ 2.382321] [drm] Encoders:
[ 2.382321] [drm] DFP1: INTERNAL_UNIPHY
[ 2.382321] [drm] Connector 1:
[ 2.382322] [drm] DVI-D-1
[ 2.382322] [drm] HPD2
[ 2.382323] [drm] DDC: 0x1950 0x1950 0x1951 0x1951 0x1952 0x1952 0x1953 0x1953
[ 2.382323] [drm] Encoders:
[ 2.382323] [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_UNIPHY
[ 2.382324] [drm] Connector 2:
[ 2.382324] [drm] VGA-1
[ 2.382325] [drm] DDC: 0x1970 0x1970 0x1971 0x1971 0x1972 0x1972 0x1973 0x1973
[ 2.382325] [drm] Encoders:
[ 2.382325] [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
[ 2.382738] [drm] probing gen 2 caps for device 8086:340a = 3b3d02/0
[ 2.382740] [drm] PCIE gen 2 link speeds already enabled
[ 2.560390] [drm] ring test on 0 succeeded in 10 usecs
[ 2.562395] [drm] ring test on 1 succeeded in 1 usecs
[ 2.562401] [drm] ring test on 2 succeeded in 2 usecs
[ 2.562409] [drm] ring test on 3 succeeded in 3 usecs
[ 2.562416] [drm] ring test on 4 succeeded in 4 usecs
[ 2.649289] [drm] fb mappable at 0xE0C0C000
[ 2.649291] [drm] vram apper at 0xE0000000
[ 2.649291] [drm] size 33177600
[ 2.649292] [drm] fb depth is 24
[ 2.649293] [drm] pitch is 15360
[ 2.649539] amdgpu 0000:0f:00.0: fb0: amdgpudrmfb frame buffer device
[ 2.654364] [drm] ib test on ring 0 succeeded
[ 2.654381] [drm] ib test on ring 1 succeeded
[ 2.654402] [drm] ib test on ring 2 succeeded
[ 2.654423] [drm] ib test on ring 3 succeeded
[ 2.654441] [drm] ib test on ring 4 succeeded
[ 2.968269] [drm] Initialized amdgpu 3.8.0 20150101 for 0000:0f:00.0 on minor 0
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The above kconfig and dmesg are leftovers from earlier troubleshooting efforts.. (black screen at openrc start but I could login blind, startx brought up desktop.)
btw, are you running on a intel or amd cpu? Your sig says intel, 'CONFIG_MICROCODE_AMD=y' says amd.. just to be clear.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:28 am Post subject: |
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I'm using a GCN 1.0 card (R7 250) with ati-drivers, waiting for si driver stabilization (today is experimental).
If amdgpu works for you, you can try the amdgpu-pro driver.
I found this: https://github.com/volumetricsteve/AMDGPU-INSTALL
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| I use the AMDGPU driver (IOMMU must be disabled in kernel to avoid stupid problems) on an R9 390X, no issues here. My $00.2.00.1. sents |
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