Bug#978049: vulkan-tools: Vulkan not usable by default on AMD hardware

2020-12-27 Thread Witold Baryluk
Hi Ian. This is not a bug in vulkan-tools. vulkan-tools correctly reports initialization failure, as it should. It is pretty well known fact that HD 7900 series requires switching to amdgpu from radeontop for Vulkan support. It is documented on Debian wiki:

Bug#978049: vulkan-tools: Vulkan not usable by default on AMD hardware

2020-12-25 Thread Ian Bruce
Package: vulkan-tools Version: 1.2.154.0+dfsg1-1 Severity: important # vulkaninfo ERROR at /build/vulkan-tools-tihVv9/vulkan- tools-1.2.154.0+dfsg1/vulkaninfo/vulkaninfo.h:248:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties failed with ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED a google search finds this page --