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Send message Joined: 18 Nov 08 Posts: 291 Credit: 2,461,693,501 RAC: 0 |
System with AMD VII and S91x0 boards that work fine in Windows 10. Want to switch to Ubuntu. I installed 22.04 and AMD drivers using "=rocr,legacy". I disabled CSM in bios and the motherboard bios is UEFI Only one slot is Gen3. The AMD VII board is in that one. The S91x0 boards are all in Gen2 slots. Gen 2 does not support atomics I read somewhere long ago. Only the AMD VII board works clinfo reports the other gfx9 boards (s9150, s9100) have no platform. sudo lshw -c video mis-identifies the s9150 and s9100 as w9100 and w8100 However, I have seen windows do the same and they work anyway. According to some ROCm doc I cannot find at the moment quote: GFX9 GPUs (such as Vega 10) no longer require PCIe atomics That Gen3 slot has atomics since it is Gen3. The Gen2 do not but supposedly ROCm does not need it for gfx9 boards. I specified legacy as the s91x0 boards are legacy but I might be mistaken. Is anyone running ROCm in Gen 2 slots? |
Send message Joined: 18 Nov 08 Posts: 291 Credit: 2,461,693,501 RAC: 0 |
I have "almost" got this to work. I forced Gen3 on the x16 slot and now both the VII and the Mi25 boards work in that slot. Unfortunately, the VII will not work in any of the x1 slots and none of my x9150 boards work. The drivers for the mi25 and VII seem to be missing what is needed for those older S boards. |
Send message Joined: 24 Jan 11 Posts: 715 Credit: 557,038,510 RAC: 42,496 |
I haven't heard of anybody being able to use those mining motherboards efficiently for BOINC crunching. The 1X slots are just too restrictive. |
Send message Joined: 18 Nov 08 Posts: 291 Credit: 2,461,693,501 RAC: 0 |
Think I found the problem. The Mi25 is recognized in 22.04 with ROCm 5.x but is not supported AMD Instinct MI25 End of Life ROCm release v4.5 is the final release to support AMD Instinct MI25 When I tried amdgpu-install --rocmrelease=4.5.2 The error "the package was not found" The 4.5.2 was last used in 20.04. I cannot find a repo that has the 4.5.2 rocm release. Messing around with and updated repo from AMD I ended up with broken packages I cannot fix. Will try 20.04 and see if it can find a 4.5 rocm version. |
Send message Joined: 18 Nov 22 Posts: 84 Credit: 640,530,847 RAC: 0 |
isn't this exactly what I said in the other thread? Vega only supported by ROCm 4.5 ROCm 4.5 only supported on 20.04 with 5.11 kernel or 18.04 with 5.4 kernel. i wasnt so specific, but I said you might need an older OS and to check the install docs, and the above is what the install docs say. |
Send message Joined: 18 Nov 08 Posts: 291 Credit: 2,461,693,501 RAC: 0 |
isn't this exactly what I said in the other thread? I did not see that (rather did not think about it). got too involved getting the Mi25 to work It turned out that windows was easier to work with. Going to post in the GPUUG over at Einstein |
Send message Joined: 18 Nov 22 Posts: 84 Credit: 640,530,847 RAC: 0 |
the AMD linux driver situation is certainly all over the place. thankfully nvidia's driver install is pretty painless on both windows and Linux. sucks that AMD's linux experience isn't similar. |
Send message Joined: 8 May 09 Posts: 3339 Credit: 524,010,781 RAC: 0 |
the AMD linux driver situation is certainly all over the place. thankfully nvidia's driver install is pretty painless on both windows and Linux. sucks that AMD's linux experience isn't similar. YES IT IS!!! |
Send message Joined: 3 Mar 13 Posts: 84 Credit: 779,527,712 RAC: 0 |
I have recently played the match the drivers kernel to the Linux Mint version so I could get my `old` amd7970 running it worked , eventualy ,finding out then remembering that "Legacy" commandline switch had to be used so that a working open cl would be installed What a total pain in the #&%$" it was Two installs of mint , nuked the first 20.2 went back to mint 19.0 as it had the 4.15.0 kernel the driver needed Then its make shure the card don't cook while crunching coz the fans are far too slow the back of that card was instant burnt fingers hot Read a heap more on the web , try it , it don't work , BUT find , dirty hack the file `pwm1` with 255 and its full fan speed for cool crunching . Though I have an almost identical system that runs win7 ultimate and amd7970s all that OS / drivers / fan speed control stuff is so easy .. And yet another system that has Linux Mint but with a nv 1060 in it , install driver / install "coolbits" = get work done . AMD shure duz need to get its act together |
Send message Joined: 24 Jan 11 Posts: 715 Credit: 557,038,510 RAC: 42,496 |
I know that AMD cards are a pain to work with, but are aware of this set of gpu utilities focused primarily on AMD cards? Would give you fan and clock control for one thing and some great displays of card info and graphs. https://github.com/Ricks-Lab/gpu-utils I've helped the developer out extensively on its ability to work on Nvidia cards also. |
Send message Joined: 3 Mar 13 Posts: 84 Credit: 779,527,712 RAC: 0 |
I know that AMD cards are a pain to work with, but are aware of this set of gpu utilities focused primarily on AMD cards? Would give you fan and clock control for one thing and some great displays of card info and graphs. I have had a read of that page and will give it a go , many Thanks . |
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