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Fedora and AMD GPUs? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by benagain@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I picked up an AMD 9060 XT the other week and tested it out by dual-booting Bazzite. Helldivers 2, TRYP FPV Drone Racing, Mud Runner all ran as expected, it was wicked.

"Nice," I thought, "This works great, time to boot back into Fedora."

And... not so nice? Apparently Fedora doesn't have hardware acceleration when using AMD GPUs and a bunch of the apps I normally use are whinging about it. It was fine with the older NVIDIA card I had been using but I wasn't getting the performance benefits of gamescope.

Dabbled in the dark arts of trying to swap mesa drivers to the freeworld one and ended up nuking my login screen so probably going to have to roll back. I thought Bazzite was based on Silver Blue so kinda confused, I guess they've done some AMD-friendly tweaks?

Edit: Thanks for all the help everyone. I was on Fedora 42 and after installing updates today it started working again. I really wish I new what specifically was causing the issue.

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[–] any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Do you have any specific issues?
I've been using a 9070 on fedora (42 initially, 43 for a few days) and hw acceleration hasn't been an issue. I've been using newer mesa drivers from a copr repo FWIW, but I don't think hw acceleration was any issue before that.

[–] benagain@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Mainly just that now DaVinci Resolve, OBS, etc aren't using hardware acceleration and/or not working at all. I haven't got around to testing Steam because I figured I'd boot into Bazzite when gaming - but if it messes up my 'work' desktop to have the AMD GPU I'm going to have to cry slowly as I put the green boi back in there...

I'll have to tinker some more and maybe try the copr repo you're talking about.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For OBS Studio you do need the freeworld mesa according to this forum post:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/hardware-video-encoding-is-not-detected-on-obs-studio/153326/7

This github post has some nice tips for getting rpmfusion stuff installed:
https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-43-Post-Install-Guide

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

might also want to check kernel version too.. gaming distros like bazzite tend to update the kernal version more aggressively than a regular desktop distro, and since his GPU is only a few months old, that could make a difference

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

Good tip, but should be fine:

The Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux support is basically in the same state/requirements as the Radeon RX 9070 series that launched back in March. >On Linux 6.14+ and Mesa 25.0+ you are basically in good shape but ideally at least Mesa 25.1 for the best Linux gaming experience thanks to more RadeonSI/RADV enhancements and now that the Mesa 25.0 series upstream has reached end-of-life.
As is usually the case for new hardware and open-source drivers, the newer the software you are able to run, the better and more performant the experience. But even out-of-the-box on the likes of Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 is a pleasant RDNA driver stack.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Iirc, the free version of resolve lacks hw accel via OpenCL on Linux for specific formats like MP4. What are your encode settings? If you pay for resolve, I would try contacting the vendor. I'm not sure if the app supports ROCm / HIP directly (I gather it does but haven't used this path directly), but you can try installing the ROCm meta package via dnf on Fedora Workstation (or rpm-ostree package overlay on Bazzite) to see if that opens up more options.

I'll check in with OBS later to confirm my settings.

I'm not sure how it is for atomic apps but if video players like VLC and MPV are complaining, you may need to grab the gstreamer plugins from the store? (I need to check if this is consistent across fedora workstation and immutable setups like on my fedora silverblue install)

[–] any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

I'm not familiar with either of those programs, sorry.
You might want to check what mpv and/or va-api is reporting.

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