On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote:
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".
Ed, If you say so. Is that a generic brand and model for the graphic card I have?
lsmod has to show the amdgpu and drm modules loaded. Vmware should NOT be loaded and come up in lspci etc.
I'll check the other host for those modules. There is no Vmware installed here; I removed their free virtualizer many years ago when they started charging for it. And that was on a different machine and much earlier version of Slackware.
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.
Huh. I had a 4.14.x kernel installed before 'upgrading' to the newer 4.4.x kernels. I suppose I could upgrade to the kernels in -current without any problems.
Either way, something is either "too old" or screwy with your system if its identifying you RX550 as "VMware"
It has to be something in 14.2 that's too old 'cause the hardware is bleeding edge, or as close to bleeding edge can be after 11 months. And, I have a new graphics card on the way: a Radeon Pro WX 4100. That should be sufficiently modern. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
