Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-09 Thread Johannes Dieterich
On Tuesday, October 9, 2018, tech-lists wrote: > On 10/10/2018 00:19, tech-lists wrote: > > [unquote] > > > > Is this incorrect? > > ah or do you mean it won't work with BOINC? ROCm will work if you have the ROCm stack. Currently it is Ubuntu and CentOS only. Additionally, I don't know wheth

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-09 Thread tech-lists
On 10/10/2018 00:19, tech-lists wrote: [unquote] Is this incorrect? ah or do you mean it won't work with BOINC? -- J. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-09 Thread tech-lists
On 10/10/2018 00:13, Johannes Dieterich wrote: On Tuesday, October 9, 2018, tech-lists wrote: On 08/10/2018 19:55, Johannes Dieterich wrote: Depends what the boinc client uses. OpenCL - you will need graphics/clover which is not officially supported by AMD but may work. ROCm/HIP - won't work

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-09 Thread tech-lists
On 09/10/2018 14:33, Johannes Lundberg wrote: Hi Let me know if you manage to get GPU processing working. I haven't explored the option so much but from what I've seen so far, there doesn't seem to be much GPU work available for *nix systems. I'm also on WCG. Hi, OK the error message for

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-09 Thread Johannes Dieterich
On Tuesday, October 9, 2018, tech-lists wrote: > On 08/10/2018 19:55, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > > Depends what the boinc client uses. OpenCL - you will need graphics/clover > > which is not officially supported by AMD but may work. ROCm/HIP - won't > > work. > > Hi, > > What is ROCm/HIP ?

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-09 Thread tech-lists
On 08/10/2018 19:55, Johannes Dieterich wrote: Depends what the boinc client uses. OpenCL - you will need graphics/clover which is not officially supported by AMD but may work. ROCm/HIP - won't work. Hi, What is ROCm/HIP ? thanks, -- J. ___ freebs

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-09 Thread Johannes Lundberg
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 1:47 PM tech-lists wrote: > Hi, > > context: 12-alpha8, amd64, xorg, AMD rx580 card > > As per /usr/ports/UPDATING, I have installed graphics/drm-kmod which has > installed drm-next-kmod-4.11.g20180822 > > As per pkg message, it's loaded with this line in /etc/rc.conf: > >

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-09 Thread Gary Palmer
On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 11:28:20PM +0100, tech lists wrote: > On 08/10/2018 19:55, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > >> 1. is this the right/fastest/best driver for this card? > > Yes, amdgpu kernel module and amdgpu DDX > > aha I didn't know about the xf86-video-amdgpu DDX requirement. OK, have > insta

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-08 Thread tech lists
On 08/10/2018 19:55, Johannes Dieterich wrote: >> 1. is this the right/fastest/best driver for this card? > Yes, amdgpu kernel module and amdgpu DDX aha I didn't know about the xf86-video-amdgpu DDX requirement. OK, have installed that :D >> 3. I'd like this card to crunch with boinc. What determ

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-08 Thread Johannes Dieterich
On Monday, October 8, 2018, tech lists wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/10/2018 14:06, Warner Losh wrote: > > You need "/boot/kernel/amdgpu.ko" here > > > > Warner > > The instructions in pkg-message (at the time, haven't updated ports in a > day or so) contradict this: > > $ cd /usr/ports/graphics/dr

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-08 Thread Johannes Dieterich
On Monday, October 8, 2018, tech-lists wrote: > Hi, > > context: 12-alpha8, amd64, xorg, AMD rx580 card > > As per /usr/ports/UPDATING, I have installed graphics/drm-kmod which has > installed drm-next-kmod-4.11.g20180822 > > As per pkg message, it's loaded with this line in /etc/rc.conf: >

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-08 Thread tech lists
Hi, On 08/10/2018 14:06, Warner Losh wrote: > You need "/boot/kernel/amdgpu.ko" here > > Warner The instructions in pkg-message (at the time, haven't updated ports in a day or so) contradict this: $ cd /usr/ports/graphics/drm-next-kmod/ $ ls Makefiledistinfopkg-descr pkg-m

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-08 Thread Warner Losh
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 7:32 AM Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On 10/8/18 3:06 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > You need "/boot/kernel/amdgpu.ko" here > > > > Warner > > Or did you mean: > > /boot/modules/amdgpu.ko > Doh! You're right. You need the one installed by the ports, which is in /boot/modules no

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-08 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On 10/8/18 3:06 PM, Warner Losh wrote: You need "/boot/kernel/amdgpu.ko" here Warner Or did you mean: /boot/modules/amdgpu.ko --HPS ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscri

Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-08 Thread Warner Losh
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:47 AM tech-lists wrote: > Hi, > > context: 12-alpha8, amd64, xorg, AMD rx580 card > > As per /usr/ports/UPDATING, I have installed graphics/drm-kmod which has > installed drm-next-kmod-4.11.g20180822 > > As per pkg message, it's loaded with this line in /etc/rc.conf: > >

drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

2018-10-08 Thread tech-lists
Hi, context: 12-alpha8, amd64, xorg, AMD rx580 card As per /usr/ports/UPDATING, I have installed graphics/drm-kmod which has installed drm-next-kmod-4.11.g20180822 As per pkg message, it's loaded with this line in /etc/rc.conf: kld_list="amdgpu" But even though I get a graphical display, this