Need help with vulkan for AMD ryzen 7 5700G

[swh]

I have now reinstalled . I don’t remember if I had vulkan for AMD installed on my old installation.

This is my CPU

CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP cache: L2: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1649 min/max: 1400/4672 cores: 1: 1400 2: 1400 3: 2994
    4: 3800 5: 1400 6: 1400 7: 1400 8: 1400 9: 1400 10: 1400 11: 1400 12: 1400
    13: 1400 14: 1400 15: 1400 16: 1400

and this is the basic installation of the graphics driver

Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 05:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:1638 temp: 31.0 C
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.8
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96
  Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 model: LG (GoldStar) ULTRAGEAR
    res: 1920x1080 dpi: 93 diag: 604mm (23.8")
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 22.3.4 renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir LLVM
    15.0.7 DRM 3.49 6.1.11-zen1-1-zen) direct-render: Yes

is it mandatory to install the vulkan-radeon driver?
if i want to install vulkan is it sufficient to install vulkan-radeon and as i see on arch wiki still vulkan-tools for verification?
is it enough to reboot the computer after the installation or do I still have to enter vulkan somewhere?

Edit: I see on another thread just use sudo pacman -S vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon and restart.

[BS86]

@swh

I see on another thread just use sudo pacman -S vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon and restart.

exactly, but the restart is only necessary if you had amdvlk installed before (which is bad)

optionally, sudo pacman -S vulkan-mesa-layers lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers - it adds some more compatibility layers but most stuff will run without it.

@swh

vulkan-tools

are only needed if you want to have minimal test tools for troubleshooting. If you can launch any other vulkan application, you won’t need those tools but they also don’t hurt.

@swh

is it mandatory to install the vulkan-radeon driver?

only if you want to use vulkan - if you do, this is the best way to do it. At the moment, vulkan is only used by games as a default, some browsers can run on vulkan optionally, DE’s prepare for vulkan but none offers it yet

[swh]

Thanks that helps much.

@BS86

exactly, but the restart is only necessary if you had amdvlk installed before (which is bad)

I am sure i dont have amdvlk installed. if, then I would have to see it with inxi -G, right?

@BS86

optionally, sudo pacman -S vulkan-mesa-layers lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers - it adds some more compatibility layers but most stuff will run without it.

gonna try that

@BS86

only if you want to use vulkan

so far everything is working. i only play supertuxkart sometimes, then i use gaiasky and stellarium a lot.

i think i will install vulkan with the dependencies you gave me

[BS86]

@swh

if, then I would have to see it with inxi -G, right?

inxi doesn’t check or report vulkan drivers/versions, so no, you won’t see it, but it is also not installed by default.
you can check with pacman -Qs amdvlk if you have it installed. It might get installed when installing steam as it is the first entry in the list of vulkan-providers, but if you know what you do, you can also choose vulkan-radeon there.

[swh]

@BS86

inxi doesn’t check or report vulkan drivers/versions, so no, you won’t see it, but it is also not installed by default.

Ok, I see, thanks!

@BS86

pacman -Qs amdvlk

nothing is installed, im going to use vulkan.

sudo pacman -S vulkan-radeon lib32-vulkan-radeon vulkan-mesa-layers lib32-vulkan-mesa-layers

[swh]

Everything is running well .Thank you @BS86 for your support