Re: [gentoo-user] Amdgpu-pro, anyone?
On Friday, 15 March 2019 16:35:50 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:22 PM Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > Can anyone help me with installing the proprietary amdgpu-pro driver, > > please? > > > > I've downloaded the package from the AMD site; it contains 50-odd .deb > > files and an installation script. I can't use the script directly, of > > course, because it wants to install in a Ubuntu or Steam system. > > I can't vouch for it and the wiki article seems out of date, but the > repo does contain dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl. > > That seems like a good starting point if it is current. The last > update was in Jan, and it appears to use an ubuntu tarball and unpack > one of the deb files. Yes, I have that installed already. There's no sign of GPU activity other than as a display driver (as shown by radeonpro). Watching the BOINC log I see numerous requests for GPU jobs by several projects, but none arrive. So I supposed I must have something missing, whence the query. I've been through all my projects and made sure they really were all set up to use the GPU. Still no jobs received. I'd better take it up with the offending projects - thanks for your help, Rich. -- Regards, Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Amdgpu-pro, anyone?
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:22 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Can anyone help me with installing the proprietary amdgpu-pro driver, please? > > I've downloaded the package from the AMD site; it contains 50-odd .deb files > and an installation script. I can't use the script directly, of course, > because it wants to install in a Ubuntu or Steam system. I can't vouch for it and the wiki article seems out of date, but the repo does contain dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl. That seems like a good starting point if it is current. The last update was in Jan, and it appears to use an ubuntu tarball and unpack one of the deb files. >From a glance at it the intent seems to be using the pro driver for opencl support, and then using the open source amdgpu for graphics. The ebuild warns that this is not an AMD-supported config. marecki@g.o seems to be the maintainer of this package, so if you're interested in collaborating on getting the entire thing working on Gentoo you might consider reaching out to him. The ebuild comments suggest that this might be of interest, just not a priority. I use the open source amdgpu in-kernel drivers on Ryzen integrated graphics and aside from some panics six months ago when it was less stable I've found they work well. I don't do anything too serious with the GPU - it is just a regular desktop from that standpoint not used for gaming/etc. -- Rich
[gentoo-user] Amdgpu-pro, anyone?
Hello list, Can anyone help me with installing the proprietary amdgpu-pro driver, please? The open-source driver is running well, but it doesn't include OpenCL-2, which I'd like to use for its GPU acceleration of floating-point BOINC calculations. I used to have this running, but now all support seems to have been removed from Gentoo sites. I may have used the guidance from Warwick University before (I'm not sure), but that's gone too now. I've downloaded the package from the AMD site; it contains 50-odd .deb files and an installation script. I can't use the script directly, of course, because it wants to install in a Ubuntu or Steam system. -- Regards, Peter.
