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gregf

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Registered: 2007-09-04

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[SOLVED} RX570 & mesa-git

I just got a RX570 two days ago and I'm trying to get the drivers to work up to par. Right now i'm lucky if I get more than 30fps in most games on medium settings. I hear there are fixes in mesa-git for this so I'm trying to get that going.

I added the LH-mesa-git-repo repository and installed mesa-git and amdgpu-git from the repository. I rebooted just to make sure everything was unloaded and reloaded.

When I try to start steam now I get the following error.

GLXChoose visual failed

When I run glxinfo I get another error.

$ glxinfo
name of display: :0
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

Any help would be much appreciated!

Last edited by gregf (2017-05-11 13:29:36)

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED} RX570 & mesa-git

I'm guessing you had stock mesa installed before ?

If so, you picked a bad time to switch.

Stock mesa switched to libglvnd not long ago but neither LH mesa-git repo nor my AUR mesa-git have made that switch
(the patches needed for libglvnd didn't play nice with mesa git master) .

Mesa 17.1 (just released) should have most what is needed for glvnd now, so both mesa-git alternatives may get glvnd support soon.

If you want to to try to get things working now, replace libglvnd with mesa-liblgl-git .

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gregf

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Registered: 2007-09-04

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Re: [SOLVED} RX570 & mesa-git

I just did a quick search for mesa-libgl-git and it doesn't appear to exist?

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED} RX570 & mesa-git

It was replaced by libglvnd in official repos, but is still present in Lord Heavy's unofficial repo.

If you have that repo configured in pacman.conf , pacman -Ss should find it.

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gregf

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Registered: 2007-09-04

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Re: [SOLVED} RX570 & mesa-git

I find these in your repo that did the trick.

mesa-git/lib32-mesa-libgl-git 91771.ccf9669cc1-1 (mesagit) [installed]
mesa-git/mesa-libgl-git 91771.ccf9669cc1-1 (mesagit) [installed]

Getting much better performance now, although not what I would expect still. I'm sure things will improve with time.Thanks for the help.

KlavKalashj

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Registered: 2008-10-09

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Re: [SOLVED} RX570 & mesa-git

Dont forget to get the latest kernel you can get. I noticed quite a big leap in performance when going from 4.10 to 4.11 with my RX 470.