new live iso … pacman -Qs xf86-video
local/xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1.0-2 (xorg-drivers) X.org amdgpu video driver
local/xf86-video-ati 1:19.1.0-2 (xorg-drivers) X.org ati video driver
local/xf86-video-fbdev 0.5.0-2 (xorg-drivers) X.org framebuffer video driver
local/xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+908+g7181c5a4-1 (xorg-drivers) X.org Intel i810/i830/i915/945G/G965+ video drivers
local/xf86-video-vesa 2.4.0-3 (xorg-drivers xorg) X.org vesa video driver
local/xf86-video-vmware 13.3.0-2 (xorg-drivers) X.org vmware video driver
sudo lspci -vnn | grep -PA9 ‘VGA|Display’
0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] [1002:731f] (rev c1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Device [1682:5701]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 82, IOMMU group 25
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=2M]
I/O ports at f000 [size=256]
Memory at fce00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
Expansion ROM at fce80000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [48] Vendor Specific Information: Len=08 <?>
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
@anon96036739
Although you have a different card than my RX590 most of the info is the same. It is using the the amdgpu. The other drivers on mine are.
local/xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1.0-2 (xorg-drivers)
X.org amdgpu video driver
local/xf86-video-ati 1:19.1.0-2 (xorg-drivers)
X.org ati video driver
local/xf86-video-fbdev 0.5.0-2 (xorg-drivers)
X.org framebuffer video driver
local/xf86-video-vesa 2.4.0-3 (xorg-drivers xorg)
X.org vesa video driver
[ricklinux@eos-xfce ~]$
I have used Anarchy a lot also and it gives you the option to choose default, amdgpu or amd/ati. I have installed and tried each one with no issue.
One difference is i don't have the 32 bit mesa or vulkan loaded.
You are using the git version of mesa which has the Amd Compiler.
Here is some current testing info on the your RX5700 XT card verses my RX590 on 5.6 and 5.7 kernels. Look at all 4 pages. As you can see my RX590 is no match for the RX5700 XT which is like 8 card models in the 5000 series above mine so it gets pummelled!
My honest opinion is your card should work no problem on EndeavourOS and you can easily switch the mesa drivers to the ACO git version to try it.. Anarchy is using older vulkan also. I don't think that matters.
The ACO version.
[https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-19.3-Lands-RADV-ACO](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-19.3-Lands-RADV-ACO)
[https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-57-amdgpu&num=1](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-57-amdgpu&num=1)
@anon96036739
I just installed the ACO mesa-git version on endeavouros. If you look at it’s dependencies it brings everything in and removes mesa that is currently installed. It takes a while for it to build the packages from the AUR. I installed both.
Thanks for your posts @ricklinux and, yes, I have the one AMD/ATI driver here, and can see you have four drivers. I’m actually already using the mesa-aco you’ve just said you installed, which removes the original mesa … certainly does take a while to install! Are you seeing a difference with your pc’s performance? Thanks for the links too … interesting, and I at last saw a post on how to enable aco within normal mesa, via one of the links … just before aco is due to be active anyway in 20.2, lol; better to learn late than never though.
I’m stumped, lol. All I can think is that there’s a difference in how many drivers are installed. Same amdgpu kernel driver, but card seems to like to just have the ATI driver. With the freeze happening within a few seconds, there’s no time to do anything at all, so I’m not sure what more to do, but really appreciate your time and help with this.
Great to know there may be other solutions. Would that possibly be changed within the installer? I use the network driver that’s blacklisted so, on the laptop I was testing on, I’d needed to unblock it, but there’s no time to do that on the main PC, with the freezing happening so quickly. I don’t know how or where to do anything otherwise about the 2 things you’re mentioning … if it would mean me altering the installation iso, unfortunately that’s way beyond where I’m at.
I agree that there must be some configuration that’s setting up differently possibly but won’t know if EndeavourOS isn’t installed and the issues aren’t worked through. I don’t think it’s the drivers. The RX5700XT is 8 card models above mine but others have it working. There were problems early on when the card came out at kernel 5.3 or so. Kernel 5.5 it seemed to be pretty solid.
Edit: I only have 00-keyboard.conf in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ .
Nothing in /etc/modprobe.d/ .
Yes, the same Mate desktop on both EndeavourOS and Anarchy. I have the same results as you regarding the 2 files/folders.
I’ve seen other mention of freezing on eOS re an ATI card, tbh, here and on distrowatch, but you’re right that it’s more likely that the card will work fine now with the later kernels. I’m still not too well, so a full format/reinstall and trying to learn chroot is a bit out of my reach at this point, but possibly at another time. Thanks for your help with this though.
Well i hope you get well and have a chance to work through this. I like Anarchy but it sets up differently with grub also and is impossible to get it to dual boot with some other Arch distro’s. I have used it with systemd but i haven’t tried syslinux as they give you these boot options as well on install.
Thank you very much I hadn’t tried dual booting Anarchy; I noticed they’ve gone over to gitlab and very active there, so there could well be a solution about dual booting pending. Good to have options, but I’ve not tried anything other than systemd either.
So to be clear, since I have a red devil 5700XT and am planning on installing EOS in place of Manjaro, what will I have to do to boot with the latest kernel?
Hello @jiibus
It should automatically load the amdgpu. I can’t say what if any issues you will have. How did it work on Manjaro? Did you have to do any configuration to get it working? What desktop are you planning on installing? Maybe you want to try it keeping Manjaro until you try a test run and get it working in case there is an issue.
I moved from a GTX 1070ti to the 5700XT a few months ago and if I remember correctly, before I swapped the GPU, I installed the amdgpu-pro*, xf86-video-amdgpu, & vulkan-amdgpu-pro packages. I do use the chaotic AUR repo for some of those.
I didn’t do anything special to configure, I think Manjaro’s mwhd probably did a fair bit in the background. I plan on continuing on with KDE, though I’m still thinking of a way to do a test run on my hardware without an extra drive to test on.
It would be nice to see you get this working on EndeavourOS. I only have an RX590 which is like 8 cards below what you have. I haven’t tried the amdgpu-pro* on it. Wouldn’t notice any difference unless i was gaming or something.
You shouldn’t need the Pro driver variant - amdgpu is part of the kernel so the 5700XT should work without adding anything extra. Have you tried booting the EOS live image to see if it works as-is?
I’ll be sure to copy/paste over, and will go and do that now.