PSA for those using DaVinci Resolve with AMD GPUs, don't install ROCM 7.2, stay on 7.1.1 (programming.dev)

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Been fighting this bug for a while now, but since I updated rocm to 7.2 DaVinci resolve died.

Took me a while to track down that it was rocm until I ran across an endeavour os post about it. But if you’ve noticed that resolve stopped loading and not showing errors, Try downgrading rocm and trying again.

Endevour OS Post: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/can-t-use-davinci-resolve-studio-crash-to-desktop/77870/11

AUR post which the Endevour OS post was referring to: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/davinci-resolve-studio#comment-1058336

If you need to downgrade your amdgpu-install package, AMD's repo link is here https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/

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[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 15 hours ago

Just finished installing DaVinci_Resolve_Studio_20.3.2_Linux.

With amdgpu-install_7.2.1.70201-1_all.deb the app does start and the splash screen shows. But the app crashes before the main menu appears. I presume there's still issues in the OpenCL implementation. Not sure if it's a Davinci issue or a Driver issue. Old driver still works.

Updating the issue myself, but yeah let me know if you want me to check anything else.

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Thank you for checking in with this. Strangely it seems to work fine for other people using different distros. Will follow up internally.

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 44 minutes ago

I am also running an edge case with an iGPU and a Laptop. Let me know if you want me to run or try anything else.

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