[Bug 1649060] Re: amdgpu does not find any output when using dedicated (AMD) card

2016-12-18 Thread miguelquiros
Just for information of anyone landing here, I indicate the results of my tests, I have tested the procedure with glxgears and the game Minecraft, both reporting similar results. If I remove all custom xorg configuration, just leaving defaults Ubuntu settings, the DRI_PRIME procedure appears to wo

[Bug 1649060] Re: amdgpu does not find any output when using dedicated (AMD) card

2016-12-13 Thread Timo Aaltonen
there's no point to use it for the desktop, because it'll just eat your battery -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1649060 Title: amdgpu does not find any output when using dedicated (AMD

[Bug 1649060] Re: amdgpu does not find any output when using dedicated (AMD) card

2016-12-12 Thread miguelquiros
Thanks a lot for your reply. Now I have to find out what "render offload target" means. I have tried "DRI_PRIME=1 glxgears" which I think is a good test for card performance and it reports 1700 FPS instead of the 60 FPS reported without the DRI_PRIME=1 so I assume that the dedicated card is inde

[Bug 1649060] Re: amdgpu does not find any output when using dedicated (AMD) card

2016-12-12 Thread Timo Aaltonen
Yur amdgpu is a render offload target, and does not have outputs as you said. In order to use it for offloading, you need to run an app with 'DRI_PRIME=1 app'. There is no better support for that in the desktop environment to control it, so it needs to be done manually like that.. ** Changed in: