Im having a problem with my discrete GPU

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Yay!

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My computer now runs silently lol

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It used to be fan hell

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I would suggest that you also can do some other things if you like. You could install vulkan-radeon. You can also install the 32 bit library files if you need them for vulkan-radeon and also mesa. You can also set up hardware acceleration and install the files and make some changes to some config files to verify that it is working. You would also set some configs in /etc/environment to tell it to use the radeon gpu.

If you need any help with this after looking it over I’d be glad to help you. Or you can just run with what you have for now and let us know if you want to do this. It’s not hard it’s just a little confusing the way Arch puts things in the wiki. Sometimes i don’t understand what they mean.

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I’d love to!!

I was just wanting to run Lutris with DXVK!!

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Okay…so do you want the 32 bit library files? I’m guessing so if it’s for some gaming with lutris.

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Yea

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Okay give me a few minutes and I’ll tell you exactly what to do for each step.

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ok!

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First install the following packages.

vulkan-radeon
lib32-vulkan-radeon
lib32-mesa

Edit: You can use yay or pacman to install them. Your choice.

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with pacman right?

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If you use pacman make sure you use sudo

Example: sudo pacman -S vulkan-radeon

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Done.

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Now install

libva-utils
vdpauinfo
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There is no AUR repo for vdapauinfo

edit= i put mesa-vpauinfo

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No just vdpauinfo

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Just installed it was a typo

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Use pacman

sudo pacman -S vdpauinfo

Edit: Okay you caught up then?

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yep

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Okay now edit the file /etc/environment I’m assuming you are using KDE? If so you can use kate to open and edit the file and it automatically saves.

Add the following two lines at the bottom of the file.

LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=radeonsi
VDPAU_DRIVER=radeonsi