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#1 2025-03-12 23:23:52
- Bormfski
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Newbie help can't find / get 9070 XT drivers working
Hello, this is my first time posting. I'm really stuck, I've tried reinstalling mesa and all vulkan drivers on wiki, I've had a look at forums and stuff for help but I couldn't find anything that would help me with my issue.
I can't boot into any games and sometimes my monitors just freeze and stop working. I know the card works fine but its not even showing the right info so I think its a driver error. This is a photo from my LACT info.
Would anyone be able to help me out please or point me in the right direction? 
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#2 2025-03-13 00:13:50
- mackin_cheese
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Re: Newbie help can't find / get 9070 XT drivers working
You haven't mentioned it so I have to ask, which exact gpu driver did you install?
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#3 2025-03-13 02:01:14
- V1del
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Re: Newbie help can't find / get 9070 XT drivers working
You'd currently need to install mesa-git/enable the testing repos to grab mesa 25.0.1-2. I'm assuming mesa 25 shouldn't be far off, though it stayed in testing due to some amdgpu breakages.
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#4 2025-03-13 07:10:51
- BS86
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Re: Newbie help can't find / get 9070 XT drivers working
as long as the card "works fine" like you mentioned, you can simply wait or install the updates from testing to get Mesa 25. It should only be a matter of hours or days until that one goes to stable.
From your screenshot, you should check if Resizable BAR is activated in your BIOS - that greatly increases performance when activated.
If you installed AMDVLK - remove it, it does not work great. You only need vulkan-radeon installed from the available vulkan drivers.
Edit: Just got my own 9070 XT today. With mesa 25.0.1 now in stable, no special action is needed anymore - the card works great out of the box now on Arch.
And: the AMDVLK version in the Arch repo's is not even compatible with the 9070 yet, so stick with Radv (vulkan-radeon) which works better anyway.
Last edited by BS86 (2025-03-14 15:33:21)
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