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bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System
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Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli |
Subject: |
bug#36786: Warn of AMD GPUs unusable with Guix System |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Dec 2021 18:42:52 +0100 |
Would it be better to find a way to fix these issue rather than warn
people about it? They look realatively easy to fix.
For the Radeon / AMDGPU drivers to work, you need:
- A patch need to be upstreamed in linux-libre for the GPU family to
make the driver load. That patch needs to be tested on real hardware.
- Potentially some configuration for Xorg for recent cards to account
for the lack of hardware 2D acceleration. Without it we could have
something like that (from Parabola):
'/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so: undefined symbol:
exaGetPixmapDriverPrivate'
The Libreplanet wiki[1] has all the information about that. If each
person with an unsupported GPU and a bit of skills (it requires to
compile linux-libre) and a bit of time (it should not take that long,
it'll probably be something between less than 1 hour to 1 day), or that
we try to help people with these GPU doing that, we could fix it for
good.
I already did it for all the AMD GPUs I had access to, but despite the
fact that it's really a low hanging fruit, only 1 person that needed a
lot of help tried to follow these tutorials (though I didn't manage to
find the time it required to help that person until the end).
All the information about was added in the libreplanet wiki[1] as it is
relevant to most GNU/Linux FSDG compliant distributions and the problem
is not specific to a given distribution.
References:
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[1]https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/research/gpu/radeon
Denis.
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