Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 12 iul 21, 06:08:27, The Wanderer wrote: > > That said, AFAIR it was never necessary to have a daemon like that in > order for my user to wind up being a member of group video (and having > access to the GPU via GLX), so for such a daemon to be necessary in > order for my user to be a membe

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-12 at 05:36, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Le 11/07/2021 à 20:25, The Wanderer a écrit : >> Mere minutes after filing a bug report with the Mesa tracker, I thought >> of something new (of course), and checked it. >> >> Sure enough: if I run vulkaninfo as root, it detects the GPU j

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-12 at 03:49, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 11 iul 21, 14:25:31, The Wanderer wrote: > >> The issue turns out to have been that /dev/dri/renderD128 is owned >> by group render, and my user was not a member of that group. I >> don't know of anything which should have told me that it nee

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-12 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 11/07/2021 à 20:25, The Wanderer a écrit : [...]cut Mere minutes after filing a bug report with the Mesa tracker, I thought of something new (of course), and checked it. Sure enough: if I run vulkaninfo as root, it detects the GPU just fine. The issue turns out to have been that /dev/dr

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 iul 21, 14:25:31, The Wanderer wrote: > > The issue turns out to have been that /dev/dri/renderD128 is owned by > group render, and my user was not a member of that group. I don't know > of anything which should have told me that it needed to be. As far as I understand, this should be t

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 iul 21, 06:54:31, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-11 at 03:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > While your testing + stable as needed mix is pretty simple[1] the > > reverse mix stable + select packages from testing requires adequate > > pinning and can quickly become problematic for any

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-11 at 13:20, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-10 at 17:36, idiotei...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Le 10/07/2021 à 17:41, The Wanderer a écrit : >>> That's excellent news; it means that, at least in principle, this >>> can work in (relatively-)clean Debian as currently constituted. >>> (It a

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-10 at 17:36, idiotei...@gmail.com wrote: > Le 10/07/2021 à 17:41, The Wanderer a écrit : > >> On 2021-07-10 at 07:43, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >>> Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here (because of the >>> freeze I pull some newer packages from experimental). Same g

Re: Didn't mean to derail (Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT)

2021-07-11 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 9:53 AM Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE wrote: > On Samstag, 10. Juli 2021 09:13:57 -04 Brian Thompson wrote: > > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 14:57 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > > This is not the point of the OP message, so let's not derail > > > > I apologize for accidentally d

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-11 at 03:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 10 iul 21, 14:38:39, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-07-10 at 14:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> It depends :) >>> >>> In my opinion I'd say the order from less to more dangerous >>> would be: >>> >>> 1. stable + select packages from stable

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-11 at 04:45, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 10.07.2021 20:54, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I had enough times when I couldn't launch X (at least not with any >> acceleration at all, even 2D acceleration) because an updated >> NVIDIA driver which was compatible with the new X or kernel

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-11 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 11/07/2021 à 01:10, The Wanderer a écrit : On 2021-07-10 at 19:08, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-07-10 at 17:36, idiotei...@gmail.com wrote: There you go, some packages are at the same version in Testing and Unstable, so you will see them in both. (Just to confirm, are you the person wh

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-11 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 10.07.2021 20:54, The Wanderer wrote: I had enough times when I couldn't launch X (at least not with any acceleration at all, even 2D acceleration) because an updated NVIDIA driver which was compatible with the new X or kernel version hadn't been released yet, and enough troubles trying to swi

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 iul 21, 14:38:39, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-10 at 14:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Sb, 10 iul 21, 06:51:43, Brian Thompson wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here > >>

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-10 at 21:30, Geoff wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> (Warning, this is fairly long, and the situation involved includes >> a fair number of potentially-moving pieces.) >> >> >> I've recently built a new computer, installed Debian, configured it >> to largely match my previous setup,

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread Geoff
The Wanderer wrote: (Warning, this is fairly long, and the situation involved includes a fair number of potentially-moving pieces.) I've recently built a new computer, installed Debian, configured it to largely match my previous setup, and migrated my data across. Now, I'm trying to take advan

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-10 at 19:08, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-10 at 17:36, idiotei...@gmail.com wrote: >> There you go, some packages are at the same version in Testing and >> Unstable, so you will see them in both. > > (Just to confirm, are you the person who responded above under the > name Brian

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-10 at 17:36, idiotei...@gmail.com wrote: > Le 10/07/2021 à 17:41, The Wanderer a écrit : > >> On 2021-07-10 at 07:43, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >>> Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here (because of the >>> freeze I pull some newer packages from experimental). Same gr

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread idiotei...@gmail.com
Le 10/07/2021 à 17:41, The Wanderer a écrit : On 2021-07-10 at 07:43, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Le 09/07/2021 à 23:44, The Wanderer a écrit : (Warning, this is fairly long, and the situation involved includes a fair number of potentially-moving pieces.) I've recently built a new compu

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Jul 2021 at 13:48:12 -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 21:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >    Testing doesn't have any direct security support > > Is that 100% true? I was originally referring to Almost, for most of the time and in normal circumstances.. It depen

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 01:48:12PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > Thank you for the detailed response, Andrei. > > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 21:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >    Testing doesn't have any direct security support > > Is that 100% true? I was originally referring to > http://securi

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Brian Thompson
Thank you for the detailed response, Andrei. On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 21:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >    Testing doesn't have any direct security support Is that 100% true? I was originally referring to http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/testing-security when I was talking about

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Jul 2021 at 14:38:39 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I'm a little surprised to see that you don't even mention the mix which > I've been running for the last decade-plus: stable + testing, which Most likely an oversight. -- Brian.

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-10 at 14:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 10 iul 21, 06:51:43, Brian Thompson wrote: > >> On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> >>> Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here >> >> Is it (usually) wise to intermix different suites? > > It de

Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 iul 21, 06:51:43, Brian Thompson wrote: > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here > > Is it (usually) wise to intermix different suites? It depends :) In my opinion I'd say the order from less to more da

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-10 at 11:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 10.07.2021 02:44, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Does anyone have experience with using Vulkan with AMD graphics on >> vaguely current Debian, using an even vaguely recent GPU? (Where >> "vaguely current Debian" means Debian testing more rece

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-10 at 07:43, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Le 09/07/2021 à 23:44, The Wanderer a écrit : > >> (Warning, this is fairly long, and the situation involved includes >> a fair number of potentially-moving pieces.) >> >> >> I've recently built a new computer, installed Debian, configur

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 10.07.2021 02:44, The Wanderer wrote: Does anyone have experience with using Vulkan with AMD graphics on vaguely current Debian, using an even vaguely recent GPU? (Where "vaguely current Debian" means Debian testing more recently than the release of current stable, and a "vaguely recent GPU" m

Re: Didn't mean to derail (Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT)

2021-07-10 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
On Samstag, 10. Juli 2021 09:13:57 -04 Brian Thompson wrote: > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 14:57 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > This is not the point of the OP message, so let's not derail > > I apologize for accidentally derailing. I should have started a new > thread. I'm still relatively

Re: Didn't mean to derail (Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT)

2021-07-10 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 10/07/2021 à 15:13, Brian Thompson a écrit : On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 14:57 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: This is not the point of the OP message, so let's not derail I apologize for accidentally derailing. I should have started a new thread. I'm still relatively new to the Debian c

Re: Didn't mean to derail (Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT)

2021-07-10 Thread Brian Thompson
On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 14:57 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > This is not the point of the OP message, so let's not derail I apologize for accidentally derailing. I should have started a new thread. I'm still relatively new to the Debian community. -- Best regards, Brian signature.

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 10/07/2021 à 13:51, Brian Thompson a écrit : On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here Is it (usually) wise to intermix different suites? I guess it wouldn't matter that much for bits and pieces of experimental in

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread Brian Thompson
On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here Is it (usually) wise to intermix different suites? I guess it wouldn't matter that much for bits and pieces of experimental in unstable since you are already in agreeance with

Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-10 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
Le 09/07/2021 à 23:44, The Wanderer a écrit : (Warning, this is fairly long, and the situation involved includes a fair number of potentially-moving pieces.) I've recently built a new computer, installed Debian, configured it to largely match my previous setup, and migrated my data across. Now

Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT

2021-07-09 Thread The Wanderer
(Warning, this is fairly long, and the situation involved includes a fair number of potentially-moving pieces.) I've recently built a new computer, installed Debian, configured it to largely match my previous setup, and migrated my data across. Now, I'm trying to take advantage of one of the har