AMD GPU Acceleration / Driver Installation
EDIT - This is no longer necessary as the bazzitearch distrobox image supports GPU acceleration for AMD cards without needing to use amdgpu drivers. In case anyone else is searching this, most likely what you want to use is the bazzite arch distrobox image available in BoxBuddy. Using this I was able to get Blender and SVP working out of the box, and REAL Video Enhancer's ROCm functionality with that project's additional instructions outlined on Github.
I think I'm running into an issue where I need proprietary AMD drivers in order to take advantage of GPU acceleration. The two programs I am having trouble with are Blender and SVP. I was able to use these programs without a problem on Nobara while having proprietary drivers installed through Nobara's utility.
I installed
amdgpu-install through the Fedora Distrobox but it runs into an error trying to download metadata for the amdgpu repository:
Indeed the file is not found. I think it is looking for https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.1.3/el/9.3/main/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml but I don't know how I could point it to that location, or if that is even the correct course of action. What should I do?Solution:Jump to solution
Got it working! Installing those runtimes, then installing blender, mpv, and svp-bin worked after I cleaned up my mess from prior. Thanks!
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the proprietary AMD drivers are bad and we do not support them
if you need them for a specific workload, the best thing to do is install them in distrobox
and then install the application that needs them in the same box
attemping to layer them will be a very, very bad time
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I am trying to install through distrobox
here's a premade distrobox container with the drivers installed
ahhh okay, ill look into that
distrobox create --name arch-amdgpupro --image ghcr.io/ublue-os/arch-distrobox-amdgpuproBlender Flatpak doesn't work with AMD GPUs, but Distroboxes work fine
11:26:32.709 [I]: Playback [7acf86d0]: playing at 143.856 [23.976 *6/1] /10 bit
VO: [gpu] 1080x604 yuv420p10
I'm not as familier with SVP but I think it runs completly fine as well
So if you weren't aware, at least on Arch,
rocm-opencl-runtime and hip-runtime-amd are your friendsshould probably add this to the
distrobox.ini 🤔That worked a charm on Blender!
Are you sure you have GPU Acceleration on? This output is also shown when no acceleration is enabled. Did you run it through distrobox?
Yes, pretty sure. Runs through distrobox fine
System settings report lower CPU use when GPU is enabled
Solution
Got it working! Installing those runtimes, then installing blender, mpv, and svp-bin worked after I cleaned up my mess from prior. Thanks!