From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mihai Subject: Re: [Bug 109758] AMD GPU for Ubuntu Linux Broken Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:51:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1592553240==" Return-path: Received: from mail-lf1-x12a.google.com (mail-lf1-x12a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::12a]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D20106E015 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:51:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lf1-x12a.google.com with SMTP id g2so10572791lfh.11 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:51:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" To: bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org --===============1592553240== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000612be70582d161f9" --000000000000612be70582d161f9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Obviously you're used to nvidia/windows way on doing things. You are on linux now. Opensource is the whole philosophy. So yes, please just use the free/opensource drivers that come bundled with your favorite distro. This is the preferred way to go with AMD hardware. Here's the Radeon 7 with opensource amd drivers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-vii-linux&num=1 Benchmarks between different mesa versions, so using an ubuntu ppa such as oibaf or pandoka does matter to get the newest stack and best performance: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mesa182-4-july&num=1 And.. the icing on a cake, the comparison between opensource radeonsi and closed source (amdgpu-pro/radeon software aka the one you've downloaded): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-software-1820&num=1 As you can see, apart from the fact that the closed source one is kind of behind in performance, it also has some issues running some of the benchmarks (aka it crashes), hence your experience. So, in conclusion, yes. For polaris, on linux, use opensource drivers. If you've messed up the distro with alot of experiments and closed source driver installations, perhaps it would be better a fresh install and just use mesa/llvm packages from pandoka ppa stable with a recent ubuntu mainline kernel. Goodluck, Cheers! --- Sent from mobile, apologies for typos. --000000000000612be70582d161f9 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Obviously you're used to nvidia/windows way on doing = things. You are on linux now. Opensource is the whole philosophy. So yes, p= lease just use the free/opensource drivers that come bundled with your favo= rite distro. This is the preferred way to go with AMD hardware.

Here's the Radeon 7 with opensource a= md drivers:=C2=A0https://www.phoronix.com/scan.ph= p?page=3Darticle&item=3Dradeon-vii-linux&num=3D1

Benchmarks between different mesa ver= sions, so using an ubuntu ppa such as oibaf or pandoka does matter to get t= he newest stack and best performance:=C2=A0https://= www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=3Darticle&item=3Dmesa182-4-july&num= =3D1

And.. the icing= on a cake, the comparison between opensource radeonsi and closed source (a= mdgpu-pro/radeon software aka the one you've downloaded): https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=3Darticle&item= =3Dradeon-software-1820&num=3D1=C2=A0
As you= can see, apart from the fact that the closed source one is kind of behind = in performance, it also has some issues running some of the benchmarks (aka= it crashes), hence your experience.

So, in conclusion, yes. For polaris, on linux, use opensource = drivers. If you've messed up the distro with alot of experiments and cl= osed source driver installations, perhaps it would be better a fresh instal= l and just use mesa/llvm packages from pandoka ppa stable with a recent ubu= ntu mainline kernel.

Goo= dluck,
Cheers!

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