Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 13:27:41 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: tech lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net> Cc: Johannes Dieterich <dieterich.joh@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drm confusion / xorg / AMD RX580 GPU Message-ID: <20181009122741.GA84410@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <6e478bae-9d10-5cb6-42a1-b9e6694e3d23@zyxst.net> References: <365a9257-6858-f386-56d2-5dedb0883670@zyxst.net> <5sb838.pgan7v.0-qmf@smtp.gmail.com> <6e478bae-9d10-5cb6-42a1-b9e6694e3d23@zyxst.net>
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 11:28:20PM +0100, tech lists wrote: > On 08/10/2018 19:55, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > >> 1. is this the right/fastest/best driver for this card? > > Yes, amdgpu kernel module and amdgpu DDX > > aha I didn't know about the xf86-video-amdgpu DDX requirement. OK, have > installed that :D > > >> 3. I'd like this card to crunch with boinc. What determines if this is > >> possible? is it freebsd, boinc, the card driver, the project boinc is on > >> or something else? > > Depends what the boinc client uses. OpenCL - you will need graphics/clover which is not officially supported by AMD but may work. ROCm/HIP - won't work. > ok thnks for that. I saw no option for boinc_client to use OpenCL when > building the port, so I installed opencl first, then linux-c7 (was c6 > before) then built boinc-client ensuring the option to take linux work > was selected. The boinc project is World Community Grid. > > I'm not able to immediately test as it's a friend's computer. He says it > "displays great" but I'm looking for a way to quantify that. Hence the > question how to test the cards capabilities. Look in the BOINC logs. There should be a co-processor section (I think) if the GPU is found, else a log of "No usable GPUs found" Gary
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