Also just add. you want to make sure you have xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu
installed. and best reference on fredora i have found is the french wiki:
https://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Carte_graphique_ATI_-_AMD_Radeon_:_install...
Well I am not using XOrg, I am using Wayland.
Also there is nothing in the link that you have specified. What am I
suppose to do once I open the link ?
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:04 PM Anthony F McInerney <afm404(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 14:28,
Anthony F McInerney <afm404(a)gmail.com
>
wrote:
>
>
>>
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.
>
Also just add. you want to make sure you
have xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu
> installed. and best reference on fredora i have
found is the french wiki:
>
https://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Carte_graphique_ATI_-_AMD_Radeon_:_install...
>
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