On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 14:08, Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My laptop model is the HP-ac179tx. > Full Specs here: https://support.hp.com/in-en/document/c04919819 > > It has an AMD Radeon R5 M330 Graphics (2 GB DDR3 dedicated) GPU which is > currently not being used by Wayland Gnome in Fedora. > > This is the output of: > $ lspci | grep -i VGA > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Skylake GT2 [HD > Graphics 520] (rev 07) > > As you can see it is operating on the in-built Intel Graphics. I want all > display operations to happen through the AMD GPU, is that possible? > > Now, I know video card drivers has always been a dicey topic, where there > is no stable drivers, just softwares that fail a little less than other > counterparts. > > So, I have a few questions: > > 1) I am using Gnome-Wayland. Are there at all any video card drivers out > there for Wayland ? > 2) To use video drivers is it necessary to switch to XOrg ? > 3) Is it possible to transfer all display operations to the GPU ? Like my > desktop has the monitor connected to the GPU directly, which means all > display is handled by the GPU. Is something similar possible here? > > I did try installing the AMDGPU-Pro Driver from here: > https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-radpro-lin-16-40 > > But it fails with the error: > No match for argument: amdgpu > Error: Unable to find a match: amdgpu > > Also Fedora was even listed in page, so I guess that means that it is not > supported. > > Some relevant diagnostic information about my laptop: > > $ sudo kmod list | grep amd > amdgpu 5308416 0 > amd_iommu_v2 20480 1 amdgpu > gpu_sched 36864 1 amdgpu > ttm 122880 2 amdgpu,radeon > i2c_algo_bit 16384 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915 > drm_kms_helper 233472 3 amdgpu,radeon,i915 > drm 585728 13 > gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,radeon,i915,ttm > > $ sudo rpm -qa | grep vulkan | sort > mesa-vulkan-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > vulkan-loader-1.2.131.1-1.fc31.x86_64 > > $ sudo rpm -qa | grep mesa | sort > mesa-dri-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > mesa-filesystem-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > mesa-libEGL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > mesa-libgbm-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > mesa-libGL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > mesa-libglapi-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > mesa-libGLU-9.0.1-1.fc31.x86_64 > mesa-libOpenCL-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > mesa-libxatracker-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > mesa-vulkan-drivers-19.2.8-1.fc31.x86_64 > > Lastly, I have LVM snapshotting enabled, so I should be able to try out > things so long as they don't involve my /boot and /boot/efi directories as > they are not included in the LVM. > > Let me know what is the best course of action here. > > Thanks. > -- > Regards, > Sreyan Chakravarty > > Hi Sreyan, First thought, check the bios see if you can disable the onboard / intel card? Cheers Ant.
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