What graphics driver am I supposed to use

TT-392 · 2018-10-22 11:17:00

I am using arch linux on a pc with a ryzen 7 1700 and an amd radeon r9 380x. I have been using open source drivers for a while now and this has been working fine for me. But recently steam play has come out and I am having quite a few problems running steam play games on my setup. most games are complaining about graphics and people on steam forums are telling me to install the proprietary crimson(catalyst) driver. But for this I'd need to downgrade Xorg. I am not sure what I would be giving up if I went all the way back to Xserver version 1.10 but this just doesn't sound like the optimal solution so I was wondering if anyone has any experience with downgraded xorg catalyst drivers and if these people have had experiennce with steam play (and the other dxvk related stuff) because I am wondering if this would all even be worth it. Also would it be possible to have different Xorg versions and different drivers installed side by side so I could write a script to restart Xorg and switch between the 2 setups.

I know this is a pretty vague question but that is mainly because I just have no idea what the best solution would be in this case, so I am mainly just wondering what other people who know more about or have experience with this stuff would recommend.

Slithery · 2018-10-22 11:30:06

Which driver are you using?

If you're using the old radeon driver then try switching to the new amdgpu driver instead.

seth · 2018-10-22 12:42:47

Catalyst is dead - the maintained drivers are radeon, amdgpu & amdgpupro.
Fox X11 you can use the specific ddx drivers or the modesetting driver.

In doubt, paste your xorg log and dmesg and glx outputs.

V1del · 2018-10-22 13:24:11

As already mentioned, elaborate on what you actually have installed.

For Steam you specifically should install relevant lib32 versions and especially important (lib32-)radeon-vulkan for Vulkan support.

TT-392 · 2018-10-22 13:50:28

I think what I was using is the xf86-video-ati drivers in the past. I didn't realize there were 2 kinds of open source amd drivers. I just installed xf86-video-amdgpu. but now my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf is beeing ignored.
10-monitor.conf:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "DP-1"
    Option      "Primary" "true"
    Option      "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
    Option      "Position" "0 0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "DVI-D-1"
    Option      "PreferredMode" "1600x1200"
    Option      "Position" "-1600 0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "DVI-I-1"
    Option      "PreferredMode" "1600x1200"
    Option      "Position" "1920 0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier  "HDMI-1"
    Option      "PreferredMode" "1920x1080"
    Option      "Position" "0 -1080"
EndSection

seth · 2018-10-22 13:53:17

If you want this to go anywhere

seth wrote:

paste your xorg log and dmesg and glx outputs.

and best add "lspci" to the list.

Edit: it's most likely ignored because the output names vary w/ the drivers, check "xrandr -q"

Last edited by seth (2018-10-22 13:54:24)

TT-392 · 2018-10-22 13:58:50

It appears that the monitor identifiers have been changed after installing amdgpu. everything seems to be working fine now.

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What graphics driver am I supposed to use

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