well, today i (partially) realized why my basic drivers don’t work: the preinstalled packages amdgpu and amdgpu-dkms seem to not work due to amdgpu-dkms being unconfigured. tried configuring it and got the same error. around about there my system stopped using even the iGPU and i had to uninstall some other drivers (thanks @lena@gregtech.eu )
Which distro are you using? AMD has been completely plug-and-play for me.
My R9 390 was a huge pain in the ass to get working on any distro, but I think it was the last card before they fixed whatever issue it was.
Yeah, afaik it’s exactly one of the cards that require manual intervention or a switch to the radeon driver. Bad generation to run on Linux.
I have a r9 380. It’s been amazing on Linux
This was on Windows:
Fancy.
Now I want that as a KDE theme
Too bad. It’s a Windows exclusive and requires specific hardware.
The R9 380 was a rebrand of the R9 285, which was the first card to require the use of the new amdgpu driver. The R9 390 was a rebrand of the R9 290, which did not force the use of amdgpu, but optionally supports it through a kernel flag.
Source: I have an R9 380.
Ah, makes a lot of sense.
Yeeeah :(
Kbuntu 22.04 w/ radeon R9 M360
Have you enabled Southern Islands support as a kernel parameter? Your generation of GPU was originally supported on
radeon, so you need to explicitly enable SI (Southern Islands) support to useamdgpu.See ArchWiki for more information