Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU

From: tech lists <tech-lists_at_zyxst.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 23:28:20 +0100
On 08/10/2018 19:55, Johannes Dieterich wrote:
>> 1. is this the right/fastest/best driver for this card?
> Yes, amdgpu kernel module and amdgpu DDX

aha I didn't know about the xf86-video-amdgpu DDX requirement. OK, have
installed that :D

>> 3. I'd like this card to crunch with boinc. What determines if this is
>> possible? is it freebsd, boinc, the card driver, the project boinc is on
>> or something else?
> Depends what the boinc client uses. OpenCL - you will need graphics/clover which is not officially supported by AMD but may work. ROCm/HIP - won't work.
 ok thnks for that. I saw no option for boinc_client to use OpenCL when
building the port, so I installed opencl first, then linux-c7 (was c6
before) then built boinc-client ensuring the option to take linux work
was selected. The boinc project is World Community Grid.

I'm not able to immediately test as it's a friend's computer. He says it
"displays great" but I'm looking for a way to quantify that. Hence the
question how to test the cards capabilities.

thanks,
-- 
J.
Received on Mon Oct 08 2018 - 20:28:25 UTC

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