woah woah WOAH. Slow it down for a second, you guys are making this way too complicated.
post the output of the following commands, run in succession: $ uname -a $ lsmod | grep amdgpu $ glxinfo | grep Open That's all I need to find out what is going on. On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 6:45 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
