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PSA for those using DaVinci Resolve with AMD GPUs, don't install ROCM 7.2, stay on 7.1.1 (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by the16bitgamer@programming.dev to c/linux@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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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 11 points 1 month ago

How is 7.2 newer than 7.11?

Spoiler: It's 7.1.1, actually

You need to be more careful. Misplaced decimal point can kill a diabetic.

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

fixed, I couldn't remember if it was 11 or 1.1 and I wrote the post on my phone.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

ROCm has got to be the worst software I've ever dealt with.

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

An unfortunate evil if you have AMD and need open cl

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Can you share the post here? Does it elaborate on what's failing?

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago

I'll also add it to the main post, but here is the link i was referring too

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

and here is the AUR comment thread it was linking too

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/davinci-resolve-studio#comment-1058336

Sadly it's above my head.

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Thank you for linking these. The second one suggests the following

Update: Turns out that this is happening because the update of opencl-amd package, the newest ROCm 7.2 drivers appear to not be compatible with DaVinci, I installed rocm-opencl-runtime from the extra repo since it still on 7.1.1 and now its working again.. It also doesn't work with opencl-mesa, it crashes launching a project

I'll dig through to see what can be done about it.

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I am curious if it's a Davinci issue or a AMD one. Would love to hear the results.

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

have filed this to the ROCm team, hope to get someone looking into this tomorrow.

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you, hopefully it’s something small

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Good news, seems there's an existing internal ticket covering this defect. It's an application-side issue pertaining to libProResRAW.so.

I believe we're shipping a workaround at the ROCm framework side in 7.2.1

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

That is fantastic to hear!

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Someone on the github issue thread has been asking for clinfo output on affected systems, theorising that client issues are caused by issues with vendor detection.

This is a bit of an ask, but if it's quick to jump forward and back between ROCm releases on your setup, would you be able to pass your clinfo output from 7.2.0 into the ticket linked above? No worries if not

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

More than happy to, though it might be later today thing

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

no hurry at all, thanks a bunch!

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Posted, I also had an error on the output

Memory access fault by GPU node-1 (Agent handle: 0x5a020e3bce10) on address 0x7f86a34eb000. Reason: Page not present or supervisor privilege. Aborted (core dumped)

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

can you tell me which device this is with?

edit: nvm i saw you posted it directly into the thread - gfx1103 = 780M iirc

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Framework 13 AMD 7640U

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

hey, hope you're doing well. Can you confirm if ROCm 7.2.1 fixes the issue for you?

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Last I tried to download it for Ubuntu last night. The file wasn’t there, will check again when I can

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

huh, weird. I'll check in with that and see what's going on.

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Found the driver, amdgpu-install_7.2.1.70201-1_all.deb.

Downloaded and installed. And while it doesn't immediately crash, it's still crashing before the main page loads. Just after the fairlight page. Will see if there is any Davinci updates and report back

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Looks like they copies 7.2 folder when the updated to 7.2.1. Only REHL and another distro has March files, the rest are dated Jan.

[-] the16bitgamer@programming.dev 1 points 1 day 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 13 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 2 points 11 hours 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.

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

We'll find out. It's filed to the public issue tracker, which is a nice change of pace. Hope you can stay appraised of the progress from the following link:

https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/5970

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't suspect it's davinci resolve. This is likely due to rocm-opencl.

It's a long weekend, so I likely won't hear back from my colleagues until Tuesday at the earliest

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