Help on using a different mesa branch for 9070s testing
Hi guys, i'm trying to help developers on mesa git resolving 9070 gpus issues. They asked me to try a different branch but i don't know how to do it...can you help me on how to do it? thanks
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https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/Updates_Rollbacks_and_Rebasing/rebase_guide/ You want to rebase to testing. Open up a terminal window in desktop mode and use the guide on the link to change to testing. You can always go back to stable when everything is running smoothly with the new 9070 cards.
Rebase Guide - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
Thanks, i'm already on testing release, but the guy on mesa asked me to test a specific branch of the mesa development repository, and that's what i don't know how it is done
what are they asking you to do, its likely you can do it inside arch distrobox
one of the developers has a development branch on the mesa git repo where he's fixing radv issues for 9070s. He asked me to test that branch. I wanted to do it on my bazzite installation but as far as i'm ok with tinkering...i'm no linux expert
well yes you test but how? open an app? run benchmark?
run games
the easiest way is probably to use bazzite-arch distrobox then
ask them for guides on running their branch in arch
Thanks for the advice. i tried asking for support there, but the guy didn't respond. Also i've found this guide https://gist.github.com/Venemo/a9483106565df3a83fc67a411191edbd. Can you tell me if it's legit? it seems fairly simple
it could work, youll need to do the compile step in fedora distrobox and run it in host
i can't compile it directly on my host?
you arent supposed to compile anything in host when using atomic distro
supposed or allowed? what are the downsides? I understand that's an immutable system...but is it an hard block or something i can circumvent for the sake of one test?
thanks for your patience
supposed, you can compile in host but it will give you more problem in the long run
using distrobox arent complicated
basically the downside is you need to layer tons of things which can slow or outright prevent updates if conflict happen
ok thanks, understood. Basically installing everything that's needed to compile the new mesa can eventually lead to a general instability that can compromise subsequent updates
correct
You can use distrobox to test this
Make a box, install Mesa in that box, and then install the application you want to test in that box
It'll use the custom branch of Mesa and not affect your system
Could, yeah
can a distrobox impact gaming performance? If it works, i'd like to use this workaround until they release it and finally play games without having to fear for a crash or a vertex explosion
the impact should be negligible but there is some drawback like no gamescope
i don't know, i think i'll gonna try my luck with compiling on the host and deal with the consequences once they release it officially. I can easily reinstall everything if needed
try compiling in distrobox first
there is a gui for that
boxbuddy
nice
use that image and whatever names
then open terminal and just use it like normal
thanks
What is the branch they wanted you to try out?
I compiled the custom Mesa repo then I have to install steam and the game I want to try right?
you can just use the compiled file in your host
use their script to inject the file
This is nice. I didn’t understand I could otherwise I would have had nothing against it 😂
is it really true that when you install mesa in a distrobox container, the graphical apps run from that container will use the mesa installed in the container? seems too convenient... but I'm also a noob when it comes to driver-level stuff
yes that is the case
very neat
I'll take a performance hit any day to avoid crashing or booting into windows XD
I guess the script must be used on the host and not the distrobox
yes, put that into steam launch option
make sure to adapt the filepath
Can you help me with this? What’s the path I should look for? Thanks mate
like just make sure
MESA=$HOME/mesa in the mesa-run.sh script is actually pointing to wherever the compiled mesa is on your system
it could be somewhere different based on where your container's home directory was when you built, just check to make sureThat’s the thing I don’t understand. Where’s my distrobox located?
ah right, well I haven't used that GUI boxbuddy but normally you enter the shell of a distrobox using
distrobox enter <name> so maybe there's a way to pop up a terminal for the distrobox using that gui as well
once you're in a shell on that distrobox then you can compile mesa per the gistAnd that’s what I’ve done
Now I have to create the script on my host
But make it point to the distrobox compiled folder
gotcha, so by default distrobox just uses the home directory of you, the host, so it should just be where you expect on the host, eg ~/mesa if you used the paths in the gist
by default its is using your home
check if there is a mesa folder there
Nope
open your distrobox and type
pwdOk now i understand I did a sudo su at the beginning
And fucked it up probably
is the file there?
youll just need to copy it probably
When I type pwd it says I’m on root/
But if I reopen a terminal it correctly places me inside my home
ls when sudo suFolders are there
i assume there is
/root/mesa?Yep
then just do
cp -r /root/mesa/ /home/[username]/mesa/Done
it should show up now
w8
i forgot -r lol
I knew
😉
oh you also need to chown it to your user probably
Ok now I run wukong with this script? What should I put inside steam launch options?
The gist says to run games from the script
Not the other way around
Omg I missed it thanks
Yep it doesn’t work…i tried with vkcube as suggested before trying with steam and it says I lack vulkan installable driver installed…so it’s a problem of path inside the script or probably the compiled folder itself
which script did you try?
try ls-ing the variable
Thank you guys! I’ve done it! I forgot to change the ninja install folder for the meson setup I chose
And what’s better is that the game doesn’t crash anymore! I’ve even managed to make it work with sleep
This is the fix that fixes them all probably 😂
that's awesome. I was hoping you'd have a good outcome, since I'm likely going to try this exact same process soon lol
Do you think I can’t use this in game mode?
should be fine
It is
as a side note, I just discovered this https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite-arch, because of course ublue has thought of everything
bazzite was using that in the past but switched to layered steam
the solution you're using now is still best for performance but it's just super neat that the prebuilt container exists at all
ah cool