> Also just add. you want to make sure you have   xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu
installed. and best reference on fredora i have found is the french wiki:
>
https://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Carte_graphique_ATI_-_AMD_Radeon_:_installation_des_pilotes_libres&prev=search

Well I am not using XOrg, I am using Wayland.
Also there is nothing in the link that you have specified. What am I
suppose to do once I open the link ?

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 7:04 PM Anthony F McInerney <afm...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 14:28, Anthony F McInerney <afm...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
> Also just add. you want to make sure you have   xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu
> installed. and best reference on fredora i have found is the french wiki:
>
> https://doc.fedora-fr.org/wiki/Carte_graphique_ATI_-_AMD_Radeon_:_installation_des_pilotes_libres&prev=search
>
>
>
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