Fedora and Radeon 5700xt

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Hi,
has anyone been able to run Fedora with a Radeon 5700xt? I installed the
Fedora 31 Beta in nomodeset mode and then updated the kernel to the
current 5.4.0 version in rawhide and while the resolution during boot is
now set to the native resolution of my 1440p ultrawide screen the moment
the GDM screen is supposed to show up the system freezes.
Is there something that can be done to make this work or is Fedora known
to not work with the 5700xt at all at the moment?

Regards,
  Dennis

[Samuel Sieb]

On 9/26/19 1:46 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>  Hi,
>  has anyone been able to run Fedora with a Radeon 5700xt? I installed the
>  Fedora 31 Beta in nomodeset mode and then updated the kernel to the
>  current 5.4.0 version in rawhide and while the resolution during boot is
>  now set to the native resolution of my 1440p ultrawide screen the moment
>  the GDM screen is supposed to show up the system freezes.
>  Is there something that can be done to make this work or is Fedora known
>  to not work with the 5700xt at all at the moment? 
There was just a thread in the devel list about an update to llvm and 
mesa that was getting pushed into the 31 beta.  I think the 
justification was support for that chipset.  Unfortunately, I just 
deleted that thread before I saw this email.  I'm not clear on whether 
the updates were in testing or not.  Try there first, otherwise check in 
koji for the latest mesa and llvm updates or wait until it makes it to 
testing or release.

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

On 26.09.19 23:38, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>  On 9/26/19 1:46 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> > Hi,
> > has anyone been able to run Fedora with a Radeon 5700xt? I installed the
> > Fedora 31 Beta in nomodeset mode and then updated the kernel to the
> > current 5.4.0 version in rawhide and while the resolution during boot is
> > now set to the native resolution of my 1440p ultrawide screen the moment
> > the GDM screen is supposed to show up the system freezes.
> > Is there something that can be done to make this work or is Fedora known
> > to not work with the 5700xt at all at the moment?
>  
>  There was just a thread in the devel list about an update to llvm and
>  mesa that was getting pushed into the 31 beta.  I think the
>  justification was support for that chipset.  Unfortunately, I just
>  deleted that thread before I saw this email.  I'm not clear on whether
>  the updates were in testing or not.  Try there first, otherwise check in
>  koji for the latest mesa and llvm updates or wait until it makes it to
>  testing or release. 
I updated to the new versions of mesa and llvm from updates-testing this
morning and these indeed fixed the problem and I now get to the desktop.
I haven't done any extensive testing yet (I plan to really set up the
system over the weekend) but my first impression is that things look
good and at least the desktop feels really snappy.

Regards,
  Dennis

[Ed Greshko]

On 9/27/19 4:46 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>  Hi,
>  has anyone been able to run Fedora with a Radeon 5700xt? I installed the
>  Fedora 31 Beta in nomodeset mode and then updated the kernel to the
>  current 5.4.0 version in rawhide and while the resolution during boot is
>  now set to the native resolution of my 1440p ultrawide screen the moment
>  the GDM screen is supposed to show up the system freezes.
>  Is there something that can be done to make this work or is Fedora known
>  to not work with the 5700xt at all at the moment?
>  
I think it would be a good idea to first try with the released version of Fedora.  That is
F30.

You're running a beta version F31 with a rawhide kernel.  Not very
"standard" and not a configuration most folks
would be running.

You may want to try the "test" list with that particular configuration as some
folks hang out there that don't
hang out here.

-- 
If simple questions can be answered with a simple google query then why are there so many
of them?

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

On 26.09.19 23:41, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  On 9/27/19 4:46 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> > Hi,
> > has anyone been able to run Fedora with a Radeon 5700xt? I installed the
> > Fedora 31 Beta in nomodeset mode and then updated the kernel to the
> > current 5.4.0 version in rawhide and while the resolution during boot is
> > now set to the native resolution of my 1440p ultrawide screen the moment
> > the GDM screen is supposed to show up the system freezes.
> > Is there something that can be done to make this work or is Fedora known
> > to not work with the 5700xt at all at the moment?
> >
>  
>  I think it would be a good idea to first try with the released version
>  of Fedora.  That is F30.
>  
>  You're running a beta version F31 with a rawhide kernel.  Not very
>  "standard" and not a configuration most folks
>  would be running. 
It's not that I *want* to run this particular combination but given that
the support for this card is landing in the kernel and in mesa as we
speak F30 is too old for this. Even in F31 the updates to mesa only
landed a few hours after I wrote the mail so you need *really* bleeding
edge packages to make this work.
Good news is that as of right now the absolute latest mesa and llvm
packages from F31 are sufficient and the 5.3 kernel might be sufficient
as well but there might still be some bugs so I plan to keep the kernel
as fresh as possible for the coming weeks until things have settled down.

Regards,
  Dennis

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2019-09-28 at 00:03 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>  On 26.09.19 23:41, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  > On 9/27/19 4:46 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > has anyone been able to run Fedora with a Radeon 5700xt? I installed the
>  > > Fedora 31 Beta in nomodeset mode and then updated the kernel to the
>  > > current 5.4.0 version in rawhide and while the resolution during boot is
>  > > now set to the native resolution of my 1440p ultrawide screen the moment
>  > > the GDM screen is supposed to show up the system freezes.
>  > > Is there something that can be done to make this work or is Fedora known
>  > > to not work with the 5700xt at all at the moment?
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > I think it would be a good idea to first try with the released version
>  > of Fedora.  That is F30.
>  > 
>  > You're running a beta version F31 with a rawhide kernel.  Not very
>  > "standard" and not a configuration most folks
>  > would be running.
>  
>  It's not that I *want* to run this particular combination but given that
>  the support for this card is landing in the kernel and in mesa as we
>  speak F30 is too old for this. Even in F31 the updates to mesa only
>  landed a few hours after I wrote the mail so you need *really* bleeding
>  edge packages to make this work.
>  Good news is that as of right now the absolute latest mesa and llvm
>  packages from F31 are sufficient and the 5.3 kernel might be sufficient
>  as well but there might still be some bugs so I plan to keep the kernel
>  as fresh as possible for the coming weeks until things have settled down. 
In that case please discuss any issues on the Fedora Test list rather
than here.

poc