Re:AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan
by majewsky on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:15AM
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> I specifically installed ubuntu instead of arch or something more exotic because i knew there would be issues.
You should try Arch. I'm using AMDGPU with X11 on Arch since late 2015 (when full support for my card entered the mainline kernel) and I had exactly zero issues. Just installed the driver packages, rebooted and everything worked (xrandr, power mgmt, OpenGL, games, etc.).
Maybe your issue is trying to use the proprietary blobs (aka AMDGPU-PRO). I never used these (and I don't know why I should).
You should try Arch. I'm using AMDGPU with X11 on Arch since late 2015 (when full support for my card entered the mainline kernel) and I had exactly zero issues. Just installed the driver packages, rebooted and everything worked (xrandr, power mgmt, OpenGL, games, etc.).
Maybe your issue is trying to use the proprietary blobs (aka AMDGPU-PRO). I never used these (and I don't know why I should).