Hi André,
I'm in a very similar situation to what you describe: I have an AMD R9
280 with an i5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHz, and am running Ubuntu 17.10 as my
daily OS.
I have stuffed around with the new AMDGPU-PRO and open source
equivalents to try to get opencl under modern Ubuntu, but although
support for my card is supposedly coming "eventually" I've stopped
holding my breath.
The situation I've ended up with is a triple-boot system with:
* Ubuntu 17.10
* Ubuntu 15.10 (last ubuntu version with fglrx drivers)
* Windows 10 (almost exclusively for the one game I play)
I can report that dt 2.4.1 builds just fine on Ubuntu 15.10 and runs
accelerated with opencl. I can also report that dt 2.4.1 runs fine on
Windows 10 accelerated with opencl.
But in reality I edit most of my files on Ubuntu 17.10 anyway and just
live with the lack of opencl.
If you'd like to try the Ubuntu 15.10 route, I wrote some instructions
on building dt here, which I /think/ should still work:
https://redmine.darktable.org/projects/darktable/wiki/Building_darktable_22#Ubuntu-1510
HTH,
Rob
On 20/02/18 05:12, André Felipe Carvalho wrote:
Hello dt users,
I don't use Windows for more than 5 years and used to be very happy with
Linux (Ubuntu, in my case). Until Ubuntu 14.04 or 15.10 I was, at least.
In that time, I could use the AMD HD 7730M 2gb GPU of my Dell Inspiron
7520 Core I7 notebook, 8gb RAM.
When dt started to use GTK 3.0, I had to upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04, in
order to be able to compile the package.
With Ubuntu 16.04, I lost the graphics card proprietary driver. No more
AmdGPU, no more Opencl, and my computer is like a snail nowadays... Even
with fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04.
My options are:
Buy a new Laptop (maybe a Gamer machine with Geforce 1050) for a lot of
cash,
or.....
Say goodbye to Linux and go back to Windows, since AMD still supports my
graphics card (last update february/2018) and dt now runs on Windows.
My questions are:
1) Is dt for windows stable, right now?
2) What are your opinion about the above scenario?
Thank you in advance!
--
André Felipe
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