Guess the time to buy is now
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-reportedly-discontinues-navi-33-no-more-radeon-rx-6600-series
Yes if you can get one at a good price would be worth it.
Nice! Already? That was fast!
So you are running on amdgpu. You could add some other drivers and files such as vulkan-radeon, support for accelearting video decoding, and hardware acceleration. Also 32 bit library files if needed.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Selecting_the_right_driver
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration
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$ lspci -k | grep -A 3 -E “(VGA|3D)”
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT] (rev df)
Subsystem: XFX Limited Navi 22 [Radeon RX 6700/6700 XT/6750 XT / 6800M/6850M XT]
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu
This is what I use for drivers:
lib32-mesa
lib32-vulkan-radeon
libva-mesa-driver
mesa
mesa-utils
mesa-vdpau
vulkan-radeon
xf86-video-amdgpu
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setup the same now! Thanks for the tips!
Did you check?
[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$ vainfo
Trying display: wayland
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.19 (libva 2.19.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 23.1.6-arch1.4 for AMD Radeon RX 590 Series (polaris10, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.52, 6.4.12-arch1-1)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$
[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$ vdpauinfo
display: :1 screen: 0
API version: 1
Information string: G3DVL VDPAU Driver Shared Library version 1.0
Video surface:
name width height types
-------------------------------------------
420 16384 16384 NV12 YV12
422 16384 16384 UYVY YUYV
444 16384 16384 Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8
420_16 16384 16384
422_16 16384 16384
444_16 16384 16384
Decoder capabilities:
name level macbs width height
----------------------------------------------------
MPEG1 --- not supported ---
MPEG2_SIMPLE 3 65536 4096 4096
MPEG2_MAIN 3 65536 4096 4096
H264_BASELINE 52 65536 4096 4096
H264_MAIN 52 65536 4096 4096
H264_HIGH 52 65536 4096 4096
VC1_SIMPLE 1 65536 4096 4096
VC1_MAIN 2 65536 4096 4096
VC1_ADVANCED 4 65536 4096 4096
MPEG4_PART2_SP 3 65536 4096 4096
MPEG4_PART2_ASP 5 65536 4096 4096
DIVX4_QMOBILE --- not supported ---
DIVX4_MOBILE --- not supported ---
DIVX4_HOME_THEATER --- not supported ---
DIVX4_HD_1080P --- not supported ---
DIVX5_QMOBILE --- not supported ---
DIVX5_MOBILE --- not supported ---
DIVX5_HOME_THEATER --- not supported ---
DIVX5_HD_1080P --- not supported ---
H264_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE 0 65536 4096 4096
H264_EXTENDED --- not supported ---
H264_PROGRESSIVE_HIGH --- not supported ---
H264_CONSTRAINED_HIGH --- not supported ---
H264_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE --- not supported ---
VP9_PROFILE_0 --- not supported ---
VP9_PROFILE_1 --- not supported ---
VP9_PROFILE_2 --- not supported ---
VP9_PROFILE_3 --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN 186 65536 4096 4096
HEVC_MAIN_10 186 65536 4096 4096
HEVC_MAIN_STILL --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_12 --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444 --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444_10 --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444_12 --- not supported ---
AV1_MAIN --- not supported ---
AV1_HIGH --- not supported ---
AV1_PROFESSIONAL --- not supported ---
Output surface:
name width height nat types
----------------------------------------------------
B8G8R8A8 16384 16384 y NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 P010 P016 I8A8
R8G8B8A8 16384 16384 y NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 P010 P016 I8A8
R10G10B10A2 16384 16384 y NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 P010 P016 I8A8
B10G10R10A2 16384 16384 y NV12 YV12 UYVY YUYV Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 P010 P016 I8A8
Bitmap surface:
name width height
------------------------------
B8G8R8A8 16384 16384
R8G8B8A8 16384 16384
R10G10B10A2 16384 16384
B10G10R10A2 16384 16384
A8 16384 16384
Video mixer:
feature name sup
------------------------------------
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL y
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL -
INVERSE_TELECINE -
NOISE_REDUCTION y
SHARPNESS y
LUMA_KEY y
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L1 y
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L2 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L3 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L4 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L5 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L6 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L7 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L8 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L9 -
parameter name sup min max
-----------------------------------------------------
VIDEO_SURFACE_WIDTH y 48 4096
VIDEO_SURFACE_HEIGHT y 48 4096
CHROMA_TYPE y
LAYERS y 0 4
attribute name sup min max
-----------------------------------------------------
BACKGROUND_COLOR y
CSC_MATRIX y
NOISE_REDUCTION_LEVEL y 0.00 1.00
SHARPNESS_LEVEL y -1.00 1.00
LUMA_KEY_MIN_LUMA y
LUMA_KEY_MAX_LUMA y
[ricklinux@eos-plasma ~]$
same output
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Budgie 11 will not support screen sharing with Discord. Budgie 11 will not support NVIDIA. Linux 6.6.6 will not support NVIDIA. Linux 6.6.6 will not support screen recording with RTX on.
What will nvidia support is the question? 
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Lol! Bought the card the day before Linus dropped that little gem. Sure they will sell fast now.