I have a HP Envy x360 with the AMD Ryzen 5 2500U processor which includes the Radeon Vega 8 Mobile GPU. When I got the machine in mid-January I started using the kernels from thed kernel-head OBS repo because kernel 4.15 is required for the AMDGPU driver to work correctly. Here is the repo:
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/standard/
All of the release candidates for 4.15 correctly identified the kernel and performance was acceptable. Once 4.15 was released and became available in the Tumbleweed repo, I switched back to the Tumbleweed version, but I discovered severely degraded performance. After doing some poking around, I discovered this output for glxinfo:
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_context_flush_control, GLX_ARB_create_context,
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
GLX_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_ARB_multisample,
GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_EXT_create_context_es_profile,
GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_libglvnd, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap,
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_SGI_make_current_read
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_context_flush_control, GLX_ARB_create_context,
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness,
GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, GLX_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_buffer_age,
GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_EXT_create_context_es_profile,
GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_INTEL_swap_event, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control,
GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
GLX_ARB_context_flush_control, GLX_ARB_create_context,
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float,
GLX_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile, GLX_EXT_create_context_es_profile,
GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB,
GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer,
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group, GLX_SGI_make_current_read
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0, 128 bits) (0xffffffff)
Version: 18.0.0
Accelerated: no
Video memory: 15807MB
Unified memory: no
Preferred profile: core (0x1)
Max core profile version: 3.3
Max compat profile version: 3.0
Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
**OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.**
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0, 128 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 18.0.0-rc4
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
The openGL vendor string is now saying “VMware, Inc.” instead of “AMD”. On other forums and reddit people have had this issue with Opensuse but other distrubutions do not suffer from the same thing. I’ve tested going back to the kernel-head version since the release candidates for 4.16 are out, but I’m seeing the same behavior.
The output of lsmod shows that AMDGPU is loaded, but I can’t explain the terrible performance, nor the incorrect OpenGL vendor string:
%lsmod |grep amd
edac_mce_**amd** 28672 0
kvm_**amd** 102400 0
ccp 94208 1 kvm_**amd**
kvm 704512 1 kvm_**amd**
pinctrl_**amd** 28672 0
**amd**kfd 176128 1
**amd**_iommu_v2 20480 1 **amd**kfd
**amd**gpu 3121152 2
chash 16384 1 **amd**gpu
i2c_algo_bit 16384 1 **amd**gpu
gpu_sched 28672 1 **amd**gpu
drm_kms_helper 200704 1 **amd**gpu
ttm 122880 1 **amd**gpu
drm 458752 6 **amd**gpu,gpu_sched,ttm,drm_kms_helper
Anything thoughts our help would be appreciated.
