On 9/9/19 1:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote: > >> whoops. That means whatever GPU you are using isn't that AMD GPU. What >> does > >> # lspci -vn |grep VGA >> give? It will list all VGA controllers the kernel finds. > > Ed, > > # lspci -vn | grep VGA > 08:00.0 0300: 1002:699f (rev c7) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) > > # lshw | grep vga > capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller > bus_master cap_list > > Looking at my financial books I see a purchase on 18 Sept 2018 of a > Gigabyte > Radeon RX-550 video card. Is this card too old? Or does it need a driver I > don't have insalled? > > Rich
OK, you have a polaris 12 "Lexa" (GCN 4th gen) that uses the linux kernel amdgpu.ko and the X.org amdgpu_drv.so and radeonsi drivers and is relatively "new". lsmod has to show the amdgpu and drm modules loaded. Vmware should NOT be loaded and come up in lspci etc. Slackware 14.2 might be a bit too old (esp. the Mesa package). I think Ben had to upgrade to current for a card in this same GPU series. I don't remember if you need at least kernel 4.9 or 4.12 for the RX 550. The AMDGPU-Pro 17.10 driver might work. I think 14.2 can only go that high; you might still need kernel-4.9+. See also https://github.com/bassmadrigal/slackbuilds/tree/master/unfinished/amdgpu-pro-driver/17.10 https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/configure-x-for-ga-radeon-550-card-4175618378/ Either way, something is either "too old" or screwy with your system if its identifying you RX550 as "VMware" -Ed
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