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

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Sep 9 16:40:43 UTC 2019


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 controller])
         Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 22fe
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 14
         Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
         Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
         I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
         Memory at fe900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
         Expansion ROM at fe940000 [disabled] [size=128K]
         Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
         Capabilities: [58] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
         Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
         Capabilities: [100] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?>
         Capabilities: [150] Advanced Error Reporting
         Capabilities: [200] #15
         Capabilities: [270] #19
         Capabilities: [2b0] Address Translation Service (ATS)
         Capabilities: [2c0] Page Request Interface (PRI)
         Capabilities: [2d0] Process Address Space ID (PASID)
         Capabilities: [320] Latency Tolerance Reporting
         Capabilities: [328] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
         Capabilities: [370] L1 PM Substates

> and scroll down to the "VGA compatible controller:" section  look for
>        Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
> 	 Kernel modules: amdgpu
> It also might say radeon | radeonhd

> If it says "vmmare", that is wrong and you need to fix it.

Says nothing.

> check:
>   /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what X.org/mesa is tying to probe.

No mesa in that file.

>   is xf86-video-amdgpu installed?

Yep:

/usr/doc/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.1.0
/usr/doc/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.1.0/INSTALL
/usr/doc/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.1.0/README
/usr/doc/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.1.0/COPYING
/usr/doc/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.1.0/ChangeLog
/var/log/packages/xf86-video-amdgpu-1.1.0-x86_64-1

> Also, I think Slackware's Mesa-11.2.2 is to old for the Vega GPUs.
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/amdgpu-module-refuses-to-load-with-radeon-rx-570-card-4175648108/

I'll look at the LQ thread.

Thanks,

Rich



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