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backawhile92

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 5

AMD GPU driver error when running Blender

Whenever I try to run Blender I receive the following error:

amdgpu_device_initialize: DRM version is 2.50.0 but this driver is only compatible with 3.x.x.

I've searched around and found no solutions, is my graphics card not compatible? It's a AMD Radeon HD 3650, and the integrated one is intel HD graphics. (thinkpad T500)
All my packages are up to date and I'm running on kernel version 5.0.0.

Is there any way this can be fixed?

Thanks!

Last edited by backawhile92 (2019-04-02 03:49:40)

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Ropid

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Registered: 2015-03-09

Posts: 1,069

Re: AMD GPU driver error when running Blender

On the following page, your card is in the "R600" columns and rows in the different tables:

https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/

The card is not run by the "amdgpu" stuff, the driver in the kernel it uses is "radeon". The Mesa OpenGL driver it uses is named "r600g" which has OpenGL 3.3 support. Somewhere in the gigantic first table on the page, it says there is no OpenCL support.

Your error message should come from software that is built for and trying to use the "amdgpu" kernel driver. About what this might  be, maybe you have installed an OpenCL driver for amdgpu? Or maybe you have installed a Vulkan driver? I would look through what kind of packages about that are installed:

pacman -Qs opencl
pacman -Qs vulkan

There might be something there that caused this error message when Blender tried to use it.

I'm betting the error message came from some OpenCL package. About Blender, I would think that it will run fine without OpenCL after you remove that package.

Last edited by Ropid (2019-04-02 04:39:12)

backawhile92

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 5

Re: AMD GPU driver error when running Blender

Yep, that fixed it!!!

Thank you so much

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