On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 14:08, Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My laptop model is the HP-ac179tx.
Full Specs here:
https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c04919819
It has an AMD Radeon R5 M330 Graphics (2 GB DDR3 dedicated) GPU which is
currently not being used by Wayland Gnome in Fedora.
This is the output of:
$ lspci | grep -i VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD
Graphics 520] (rev 07)
As you can see it is operating on the in-built Intel Graphics. I want all
display operations to happen through the AMD GPU, is that possible?
Now, I know video card drivers has always been a dicey topic, where there
is no stable drivers, just softwares that fail a little less than other
counterparts.
So, I have a few questions:
1) I am using Gnome-Wayland. Are there at all any video card drivers out
there for Wayland ?
2) To use video drivers is it necessary to switch to XOrg ?
3) Is it possible to transfer all display operations to the GPU ? Like my
desktop has the monitor connected to the GPU directly, which means all
display is handled by the GPU. Is something similar possible here?
I did try installing the AMDGPU-Pro Driver from here:
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-radpro-lin-16-40
But it fails with the error:
No match for argument: amdgpu
Error: Unable to find a match: amdgpu
Also Fedora was even listed in page, so I guess that means that it is not
supported.
Some relevant diagnostic information about my laptop:
$ sudo kmod list | grep amd
amdgpu 5308416 0
amd_iommu_v2 20480 1 amdgpu
gpu_sched 36864 1 amdgpu
ttm 122880 2 amdgpu,radeon
i2c_algo_bit 16384 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915
drm_kms_helper 233472 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915
drm 585728 13
gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,radeon,i915,ttm
$ sudo rpm -qa | grep vulkan | sort
mesa-vulkan-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
vulkan-loader-1.2.131.1-1.fc31.x86_64
$ sudo rpm -qa | grep mesa | sort
mesa-dri-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
mesa-filesystem-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
mesa-libEGL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
mesa-libgbm-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
mesa-libGL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
mesa-libglapi-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
mesa-libGLU-9.0.1-1.fc31.x86_64
mesa-libOpenCL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
mesa-libxatracker-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
mesa-vulkan-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
Lastly, I have LVM snapshotting enabled, so I should be able to try out
things so long as they don't involve my /boot and /boot/efi directories as
they are not included in the LVM.
Let me know what is the best course of action here.
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
Hi Sreyan,
First thought, check the bios see if you can disable the onboard / intel
card?
Cheers
Ant.