AMD 3800X/RX5700XT not working on EndeavourOS

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Hi :slight_smile: Just wondering if I missed something, as was unable to install Endeavour on main PC (Ryzen 7 3800X/RX5700XT with one nvme drive) and I didn’t see options to choose drivers during install. When I look at the eOS wiki, only Nvidia and Intel are covered, including auto-installing of Intel drivers, yet eOS installed fine on ryzen 5/rx560 dual-drive laptop. Anarchy for example runs on main PC without issue, using only the AMD/ATI driver. By choosing driver, do you mean via finding and using a developer or nvidia ISO?

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I’m aware of your issue, I also saw that @Manuel tried to help you and was asking for a log, to compare the two. I also remember that @ricklinux said he has a similar set up running Endeavour. We have to look into that. At this moment we don’t know if your bug is an isolated issue or a system-wide issue.
Usually, AMD is covered by the kernel.

By choosing a driver, I referred to the original discussion of having more options to choose from in the Calamares installer for the user. Our idea is that a lot of users don’t know which driver version they actually need for their hardware, hence the missing options in the installer.

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I don’t know it’s a driver issue. It should run off the amdgpu kernel driver. I’m not sure that Anarchy is installing AMD proprietary drivers when you select the ATI/AMD option as opposed to amdgpu and default automatically detects it. I don’t have any issue with my RX590 on Anarchy but the RX 5700XT is their highest graphics card and is a different beast.

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Thanks for explaining, and, yes, had appreciated @manuel (and ricklinux) helping, and I posted any possible responses.

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Hi again :slight_smile: I’m not aware that it’s a proprietary option, but here’s where Anarchy’s source code is at now, if that’s helpful … https://gitlab.com/anarchyinstaller/installer/-/releases

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What does your system show with the RX5700 XT.

inxi -G

My RX590 has this on EndeavourOS

[ricklinux@eos-xfce ~]$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] driver: amdgpu 
           v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
           resolution: 1680x1050~60Hz 
           OpenGL: 
           renderer: Radeon RX 590 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.37.0 5.7.7-arch1-1 LLVM 10.0.0) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.3 
[ricklinux@eos-xfce ~]$
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With the RX5700XT, inxi -G shows this …

Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] 
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: ati,modesetting unloaded: radeon resolution: 
           1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (NAVI10 DRM 3.37.0 5.7.7-zen1-1-zen LLVM 10.0.0) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.1 (git-951983c483)
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Seems odd that there are these differences. I run an RX580 and have this:

┌20:15:21 WD= [~]
└───freebird@nest ─▶$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] driver: amdgpu 
           v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: amdgpu resolution: 1: 3840x2160~60Hz 2: 1200x1600~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.37.0 5.7.7-arch1-1 LLVM 10.0.0) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.3

No mention of ati or the others. Seems to work well though!

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I have the same too and i installed Anarchy and selected ATI/AMD and got the same as @anon96036739 on my RX590. On Anarchy you have the choice to select default, ATI/AMD or AMDGPU. On Endeavour it is loading the amdgpu kernel driver. I’m just not sure what the Anarchy loads?

Edit: It doesn’t work any different on my RX590 but the RX5700 XT is a different beast.

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We’re getting off-topic here (again) - but I thought I’d better correct and impression I left with a previous post…

┌21:12:51 WD= [~/Downloads]
└───freebird@nest ─▶$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590] 
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: amdgpu,ati unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 
           1: 3840x2160~60Hz 2: 1200x1600~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10 DRM 3.37.0 5.7.7-arch1-1 LLVM 10.0.0) 
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.2

That more correctly represents the output on an EndeavourOS install. When I thought about it, the other was on a ‘bare metal’ install of Arch, where I told it what to use :grin:

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Solved :wink:

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:slight_smile:

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Yeah - I forgot where I was for a minute. Just built this box, and am populating it with an assortment of distros, and I happened to be on a new Arch when I was checking the boards… A quick reboot, and back to EOS :grin: Have to admit, though, I’ve never seen much trouble with any Arch and AMD before - just minor tweaks,

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All I know is that the card just doesn’t like non-AMD/ATI. I’d linked the Anarchy page as, much as I’d like to be able to read source stuff and understand it, that’s not happening any time soon, lol.

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Thanks. It will be great if more answers can be found, for anybody who wants to install eOS on newer AMD hardware, and I hope that feeds into any useful ideas that could help at all about the graphics part of the installer too.