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I run Linux at home. I have heard people say over and over that AMD is king on Linux. I have a 6900XT and while it performs well, the driver is actually shit.

by dolni 4y ago

I run Linux at home. I have heard people say over and over that AMD is king on Linux. I have a 6900XT and while it performs well, the driver is actually shit. I have had issues with one or more of my three displays not starting on boot, or not waking up from monitor poweroff. Pinning the kernel to an older version seems to keep things stable. I was dealing with that sort of breakage what seemed like once a month for a year.

LtdJorge 4y ago
Should have contacted bridgman from RTG on Reddit. He's very helpful with driver issues, and if what you are seeing is a bug, he will collect the info on it and study it with the team.
- account42 4y ago
  Seriously, one of the best things about the AMD Linux drivers is that you have direct access to the developers including a public bug tracker [0] and IRC [1]. Maybe not the kind of customer support people are used to but I honestly prefer this. [0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues (I think this is the correct one now that FDO migrated away from https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/) [1] #radeon on OFTC - https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=radeon https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=rade...
tpxl 4y ago
Aren't AMD GPU drivers known to be unreliable on linux at launch and stabilize later on? I have similar issues with my 1080Ti by the way, it just wont recognize one or two screens and will mess up the display configuration if I turn one of them off. Going into display settings, applying a new configuration and reverting it usually helps.
- account42 4y ago
  GCN took a bit to stabilize but my RX 6900 XT worked fine on launch (well, about a week after launch when I managed to get one) with the newest drivers - if you are on a slow distro then you might lag behind what is available upstream though.
isatty 4y ago
> I run Linux at home. I have heard people say over and over that AMD is king on Linux. Idk about that, I’ve never believed it. My N=1 anecdata over 12 years of using Linux with the binary nvidia blob says ive generally had a good time. I only have used it on a desktop though. It’s not like I leave the card alone either as I game on Linux, do dynamic card binding with kvm passthroughs etc.

by dolni 4y ago

LtdJorge 4y ago

Should have contacted bridgman from RTG on Reddit. He's very helpful with driver issues, and if what you are seeing is a bug, he will collect the info on it and study it with the team.

account42 4y ago
Seriously, one of the best things about the AMD Linux drivers is that you have direct access to the developers including a public bug tracker [0] and IRC [1]. Maybe not the kind of customer support people are used to but I honestly prefer this. [0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues (I think this is the correct one now that FDO migrated away from https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/) [1] #radeon on OFTC - https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=radeon https://people.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/?channel=rade...

tpxl 4y ago

Aren't AMD GPU drivers known to be unreliable on linux at launch and stabilize later on? I have similar issues with my 1080Ti by the way, it just wont recognize one or two screens and will mess up the display configuration if I turn one of them off. Going into display settings, applying a new configuration and reverting it usually helps.

account42 4y ago
GCN took a bit to stabilize but my RX 6900 XT worked fine on launch (well, about a week after launch when I managed to get one) with the newest drivers - if you are on a slow distro then you might lag behind what is available upstream though.

isatty 4y ago

> I run Linux at home. I have heard people say over and over that AMD is king on Linux. Idk about that, I’ve never believed it. My N=1 anecdata over 12 years of using Linux with the binary nvidia blob says ive generally had a good time. I only have used it on a desktop though. It’s not like I leave the card alone either as I game on Linux, do dynamic card binding with kvm passthroughs etc.