On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:21:48 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 16:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > AMD have published Linux drivers on their website, but in RPM and .deb > > formats. I tried one anyway, but installation stops immediately with > > 'unsupported OS'. Not surprising, of course, but is there any way of > > porting an archive full of .debs so that it can be used in Gentoo? > > Lots of portage ebuild files make use of vendor-published .deb / .rpm > files, manipulating them to install files in the Gentoo-style way. > > One of the more straightforward and yet complete examples I've seen is > the Microsoft Teams (net-im/teams) package[1] but there are certainly > others to use for examples. > > If you wanted, you could try making an ebuild for the deb files from > AMD, whether only for your own needs or to possibly share with others.
That's a huge undertaking in this case. Beyond me, I deem. > 1:https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-im/teams/teams-1.4.00.1 > 3653-r1.ebuild The thing is, there's already an ebuild for dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl, but since I upgraded the display card the resulting code hasn't worked. BOINC reports 'No usable GPUs found' and sources on the Web say that neither of the two drivers works. Impasse. Am I going to have to replace the old display card and write off the expense? Looks like it. -- Regards, Peter.
