Re: Upgrading amdgpu for new video card

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023, Felix Miata via slackware wrote:

> Recent Xorg releases all do very well automagically with all hardware as
> old as a WX 2100. Are you sure you don't have lingering /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> or /etc/xorg.cond.d/*.conf interfering? Do you have a custom configuration
> script somewhere in /etc/X11/ interfering? What about in ~/?

Felix,

No xorg.conf anywhere, especially not in ~/:
$ locate xorg.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-quirks.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-vmmouse.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-wacom.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf
/usr/man/man5/xorg.conf.5.gz
/usr/man/man5/xorg.conf.d.5.gz
/opt/Slackware/slackware64-14.2/source/x/x11-skel/scripts/xorg.conf-vesa
/opt/Slackware/slackware64-14.2/source/x/x11-skel/scripts/xorg.conf-fbdev
/data1/xorg.conf-salmo
/data1/Slackware64-15.0/slackware64-15.0/source/x/x11-skel/scripts/xorg.conf-fbdev
/data1/Slackware64-15.0/slackware64-15.0/source/x/x11-skel/scripts/xorg.conf-vesa
/etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

> My most recent amdgpu is 2 generations older than your WX 2100, has no
> slackware installation, but works automagically with Debian, Fedora,
> Mageia, openSUSE & *buntu, e.g.:

I run only Slackware and the installed amdgpu module is:
$ lsmod | grep amdgpu
amdgpu               3248128  3
chash                  16384  1 amdgpu
gpu_sched              28672  1 amdgpu
ttm                   114688  1 amdgpu
drm_kms_helper        196608  1 amdgpu
drm                   479232  7 gpu_sched,drm_kms_helper,amdgpu,ttm
i2c_algo_bit           16384  2 igb,amdgpu
i2c_core               77824  8 drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,igb,amdgpu,psmouse,i2c_piix4,i2c_dev,drm
hwmon                  20480  4 igb,k10temp,asus_wmi,amdgpu

> # inxi -GSaz

I don't have that tool installed.

> Note above that mine is running on the amdgpu kernel module, but not the
> amdgpu DDX display driver, instead on the modesetting DIX display driver.
> Have you tried both?

No. I assume that the amdgpu kernel module would work as it has with other
Radeon cards, such as the replaced RX-550.

Thanks,

Rich

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