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usbstick

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Registered: 2022-05-20

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[SOLVED] AMDGPU driver version 22.10

I just bought an AMD card as upgrade to my NVIDIA GT 710, and so I installed the amdgpu drivers (xf86-video-amdgpu), as said on the wiki.
Everything seemed to work fine, but when I started blender I saw that it didn't recognise my card: I looked in preferences under System > HIP, where I found a message stating that driver version 22.10 or later was required.
So I ran a system update and checked, but the xf86-video-amdgpu package is still on version 22.0.
I also tried installing amdgpu-pro-libgl and starting blender with

progl blender

but nothing changed.

So, here's my question: is the update to 22.10 for the xf86-video-amdgpu still due?
If yes, how much time may I be waiting?
Am I using the wrong packages entirely?
Thanks in advance for the info.

Last edited by usbstick (2022-06-17 15:16:42)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] AMDGPU driver version 22.10

xf86-video-amdgpu should be irrelevant, what they do require is the rocm/opencl implementation. Did you install https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd (... and maybe even https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd-dev )

Slithery

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Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: [SOLVED] AMDGPU driver version 22.10

What new card do you have?

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usbstick

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Re: [SOLVED] AMDGPU driver version 22.10

Did you install https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd (... and maybe even https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd-dev )

Just installed both of them.
Now blender does recognize my card (an RX 6500 XT from msi), but trying to render results in the error "HIP hipcc compiler not found". Does anyone have any idea how to fix this too, or should I go to the blender forums instead?
Thanks again.

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] AMDGPU driver version 22.10

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/cycles-am … 400?page=5 gives some info .

A quick check of the PKGBUILD for blender indicates blender on archlinux doesn't build with hip support yet.

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usbstick

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Registered: 2022-05-20

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Re: [SOLVED] AMDGPU driver version 22.10

Oh ok, thanks again.
Last question: any idea why a kworker process prevents CPU usage from going below 20%, even without X started?

P.S. I'm using an i5-650, which is quite old. Is it possible that it just can't keep up with the GPU?

Last edited by usbstick (2022-06-17 10:45:36)

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] AMDGPU driver version 22.10

Make a new topic since this is entirely unrelated, and mark this one as [SOLVED] if you consider it sufficiently answered.

"A kworker process" is a kernel internal thread, without more information which exact thread or under which conditions it appears this isn't really easily answerable, post a ps or a top or so

usbstick

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Registered: 2022-05-20

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Re: [SOLVED] AMDGPU driver version 22.10

Ok, I marked it as solved. Regarding the CPU I've noticed the same exact problem under windows, so it's not Arch-related and probably just an hardware issue. Thanks nonetheless.

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