Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: Yup. I'm running -current on 2 machines and it kicks my ass every now and then. But these aren't production machines, so it's not a big deal. Ben, That seems to be common with -current over the years. One thing I didn't mention is that it is

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-11 Thread Ben Koenig
Yup. I'm running -current on 2 machines and it kicks my ass every now and then. But these aren't production machines, so it's not a big deal. One thing I didn't mention is that it is technically possible to re-package the binary RPMs provided by AMD, but I don't know if anyone has done that for

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: If upgrading to -current is an option, the hardware you have will work out-of-the-box. Ben, Over all the years I've run Slackware I've read that -current should not be used on production machines. Since this new desktop will be (as soon as I get backup

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-10 Thread Ben Koenig
Ok so yeah, it's definitely a new card on an old distro. Slackware14.2 has the amdgpu driver, but the mesa is falling back to software rendering. Just wanted to be sure that you don't have one of those 2-in-1 processors. It's basically in compatibility mode. You have baseline driver support, but

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Sep 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: 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.

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-10 Thread Ben Koenig
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

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
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

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread King Beowulf
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 >

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread King Beowulf
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 >

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Gigabyte Radeon RX-550 video card. AMD's web site has drivers for the Radeon RX-550 for RHEL/CentOS, and Ubuntus but not one specifically for Slackware. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
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]) #

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread King Beowulf
On 9/9/19 9:40 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 8 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote: > >> Your [AMD/ATI] Device 699f Radeon7 (Vega) needs to be using the amdgpu >> module. VMware above is incorrect. > >> As root, > >> # lspci -v | less > ... > > Says nothing. whoops. That means whatever GPU you

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 8 Sep 2019, King Beowulf wrote: Your [AMD/ATI] Device 699f Radeon7 (Vega) needs to be using the amdgpu module. VMware above is incorrect. As root, # lspci -v | less 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 699f (rev c7) (prog-if 00 [VGA

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-08 Thread King Beowulf
On 9/6/19 1:12 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > $ glxinfo | grep -i opengl > OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc. > OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 128 bits) Your [AMD/ATI] Device 699f Radeon7 (Vega) needs to be using the amdgpu module. VMware above is incorrect. As root, #

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019, John Meissen wrote: https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-2nd-generation-vega/amd-radeon-2nd-generation-vega/amd-radeon-vii Thanks, John. For some reason Google Earth Pro frequently shuts down when I try to zoom in the image. This is apparently related to not

Re: [PLUG] Need OpenGL driver for AMD GPU 699f (rev c7)

2019-09-06 Thread John Meissen
https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/amd-radeon-2nd-generation-vega/amd-radeon-2nd-generation-vega/amd-radeon-vii On 9/6/19 7:29 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: lspci reports that my Radeon7 desktop has this VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 699f (rev c7). When