On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 14:08, Sreyan Chakravarty sreyan32@gmail.com wrote:
My laptop model is the HP-ac179tx. Full Specs here: https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c04919819
It has an AMD Radeon R5 M330 Graphics (2 GB DDR3 dedicated) GPU which is currently not being used by Wayland Gnome in Fedora.
This is the output of: $ lspci | grep -i VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] (rev 07)
As you can see it is operating on the in-built Intel Graphics. I want all display operations to happen through the AMD GPU, is that possible?
Now, I know video card drivers has always been a dicey topic, where there is no stable drivers, just softwares that fail a little less than other counterparts.
So, I have a few questions:
- I am using Gnome-Wayland. Are there at all any video card drivers out
there for Wayland ? 2) To use video drivers is it necessary to switch to XOrg ? 3) Is it possible to transfer all display operations to the GPU ? Like my desktop has the monitor connected to the GPU directly, which means all display is handled by the GPU. Is something similar possible here?
I did try installing the AMDGPU-Pro Driver from here: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-radpro-lin-16-40
But it fails with the error: No match for argument: amdgpu Error: Unable to find a match: amdgpu
Also Fedora was even listed in page, so I guess that means that it is not supported.
Some relevant diagnostic information about my laptop:
$ sudo kmod list | grep amd amdgpu 5308416 0 amd_iommu_v2 20480 1 amdgpu gpu_sched 36864 1 amdgpu ttm 122880 2 amdgpu,radeon i2c_algo_bit 16384 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915 drm_kms_helper 233472 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915 drm 585728 13 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,radeon,i915,ttm
$ sudo rpm -qa | grep vulkan | sort mesa-vulkan-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 vulkan-loader-1.2.131.1-1.fc31.x86_64
$ sudo rpm -qa | grep mesa | sort mesa-dri-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-filesystem-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libEGL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libgbm-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libGL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libglapi-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libGLU-9.0.1-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libOpenCL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-libxatracker-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 mesa-vulkan-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64
Lastly, I have LVM snapshotting enabled, so I should be able to try out things so long as they don't involve my /boot and /boot/efi directories as they are not included in the LVM.
Let me know what is the best course of action here.
Thanks.
Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
Hi Sreyan,
First thought, check the bios see if you can disable the onboard / intel card?
Cheers Ant.