(Closed) Help needed setting up AMD GPU (discuss.tchncs.de)

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Recently bought a RX7600XT and experienced lagging in Krita and flickering in blender since. I installed the drivers from AMD's website, and ROCm.

I am unsure and totally overwhelmed as to what could cause these issues. ~~ChatGPT always wants me to edit /etc/default/grub, but I am not sure why and what the bootloader has got to do with it?~~

These are quite a lot of questions and few information. If you need anything I am more than happy to provide any information.

Sys Info

Linux Mint Cinnamon 22
Linux Kernel 6.8
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
GPU AMD Navi 33 Radeon 7600 XT
RAM 16GB @3600mHz | 36GB Swap

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[-] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I installed the drivers from AMD's website, and ROCm.

~~What distro?~~

Teachable Momment Time:

Installing drivers from websites blindly isn't great on consumer desktop Linux.
Those sites are really meant for production/server/workstations.
Nvidia drivers as an example, use the distro package manager instead.
Some distros even have separate ISO images entirely.
Or different/extra setup instructions/steps for Nvidia users entirely.

No need to install extra shit for AMD.

RHEL, Ubuntu and SLED are also technically the only supported distros for AMD Radeon™ Linux® Drivers / GPUPRO.

Driver's are baked into Kernel+Mesa.

some distros.....

Tho some distros lag behind on Kernel+Mesa releases....like buntu....probably need to add some PPA just to get recent versions lol.

Consider using a container for Blender instead:

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/Distrobox

Such as using a Fedora Distrobox:

distrobox create --name fedora --image ghcr.io/ublue-os/fedora-distrobox:latest

Then sudo dnf install blender rocm

inside the box.

You can easily export applications from your containers with BoxBuddy.

Tinkering with drivers on a host computer makes things worse oftentimes. Mucking up containers is much easier to fix.

Reasons why DacinchiBox uses rusticl instead of ROCm.

You could be doing all this with just a ujust command on Bazzite. 🙃

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