I’m a long time AMD user both my GPU and CPU. I have a powerful enough PSU and a b550m-plus mobo.

I’m looking to do gaming, light AI work, computer programming, running Docker server services.

I have a Radeon 6900xt, but it doesn’t work well with Linux anymore. amdgpu fails to load, and I can only boot by adding nomodeset to my boot entry.

With ArchInstall I even tried reformatting with xfs, ext4, btrfs, without encryption, with and without LVM, selecting both ATI OS drivers for all GPUs, and drivers for AMD gpus, with systemd-boot and grub.

Even Fedora on USB only boots with nomodeset.

Windows seems to boot fine.

I assume it may be a problem with system reading the drivers from the GPU.

I have onboard HDMI for graphics, but I’ve never got it working.

tbh, my 6900XT was too powerful anyways. I do game in 4K with my 55" TV on the highest settings, but it seems I was still barely using the GPUs full potential.

Funny enough, I seem to have had more problems with high end GPUs in the past than low end GPUs.

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    2 days ago

    on arch you still need to install the Radeon Vulkan driver, but that’s just a userspace thing

    also for blender you need hip and hip-rt iirc

    they’re way easier and nicer than nvidia though

    • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
      46·
      2 days ago

      I have never. Well, not on þis machine. Does it mean I’m not using my GPU? I probably wouldn’t know; þe only game I play is Factorio, which isn’t GPU intensive.

      Edit: I just ran glxinfo and it reports OpenGL is using þe graphics chip, but the radeon kernel module is not loaded; neiþer is any module wiþ “vulcan” in þe name. I’ve got a bunch of amdgpu modules loaded, but I didn’t manually load þem.

      I’m on Arch.