I have some issues with my graphic card that I’m trying to solve. I have done some research and one solution could it be to use the latest mesa 10.5.9 but apparently I don’t have it installed. How do I do this upgrade? There is also this other problem: it seems that this line “Gallium … Read more
I have an AMD 5700XT gpu and I am trying to learn SYCL but I have a lot of doubts of the current state of AMD gpu driver stacks. According to what I read, there are several driver stacks for AMD gpus: mesa, amdgpu and amdgpu-pro. If I understand correctly, mesa has its own opencl … Read more
I found a post about Vulkan for Intel graphic card (the topic is here) and decided to try out. It said that it will be available for 5th and higher generation Intel cards. I have an old 3rd gen card which will probably not work, right? I mean Vulkan is a library, so the problem … Read more
After I installed mesa-utils in order to get rid of the “Unknown Driver” message (see here) I got contradicting info about which driver is actually being used. “System Settings” says: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300), but if I type lsmod | grep video I find psb_gfx in the “video” row. Any idea? Especially, if … Read more
I wanted to update my Mesa version to 10.0, so I compiled it from source, installed it, rebooted and when I logged in, I had a black screen with only my mouse visible. I have reinstalled Ubuntu 13.10 a few times now, and tried to install Mesa 10.0 again, and every time I get the … Read more
I just installed the amdgpu-pro drivers from AMD’s official website. But now some apps are not working that well and I heard that Mesa drivers were superior. How do I uninstall these drivers and replace them with Mesa? I downloaded the drivers from: https://www.amd.com/en/support Followed the following steps: tar -xJvf amdgpu-pro_*.tar.xz cd amdgpu-pro-XX.XX-XXXXXX ./amdgpu-pro-install -y … Read more
I have an ASUS TUF FX505DY with a AMD Radeon RX 560X / AMD Radeon Vega 8 After an update earlier today I’ve noticed a major drop in FPS in all games. Below is a list of all the updated libraries without those that probably have no impact on graphic performance (like pulseAudio or Firefox). … Read more
I am using padoka PPA. glxinfo | grep “OpenGL” shows OpenGL vendor string: X.Org OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER (DRM 2.46.0 / 4.8.0-46-generic, LLVM 5.0.0) OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.1.0-devel – padoka PPA OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30 OpenGL core profile context flags: (none) … Read more
I have an Ryzen 3700x and the RX 5700. There appears to be no hardware acceleration, and I seem to be using software-rendering for everything. I have recently uninstalled the proprietary AMDGPU pro drivers and upgraded to Ubuntu 19.04 from 18.04, installed the 5.3-rc3 kernel, and started using oibaf’s PPA. Moving back to Ubuntu 18.04 … Read more
TL;DR /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-x-session[5106]: (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x56131d0000f7 The startup problem I shut down Ubuntu 18.04.4 on my machine today and cold-started it somewhat later. Now it starts but no longer reaches the UI stage. The start process ends with the following output on the screen (tail of the output): … [ OK ] Started … Read more
