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

[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
> 08:00.0 0300: 1002:699f (rev c7) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
> 
> # lshw | grep vga
>                 capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller
> bus_master cap_list
> 
> Looking at my financial books I see a purchase on 18 Sept 2018 of a
> Gigabyte
> Radeon RX-550 video card. Is this card too old? Or does it need a driver I
> don't have insalled?
> 

It "too new".  The RX550 came out over a year after Slackware-14.2 was
released.  See my other response to this list.

Looks like the kernel is seing the card, now the trick is to get the
correct modules loaded.

-Ed


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