Hallo all,
I recently made a recommended kernel security update (which was around since March or April, but I postponed it till this week), but after that, the Plasma desktop crashed, so I was forced to uninstall the amdgpu-pro-16.50 driver. I tried also with the newest driver by amd, the amdgpu-pro-17.10, but with the same result. Has anyone experienced the same problem or has any idea how to solve this?
Thanks very much!
After a kernel update the amdgpu-pro driver has to be reinstalled, after every update.
Kernel 4.4.62-18.6-default here with still amdgpu-pro 16.50 is working without any problems or crashes.
I retried another time, rolling back the system, deinstalling amdgpu driver, updating system and re-installing the driver, but after the driver re-installation, graphics went crazy, for example not allowing me to lock the system; not even kwrite or Yast worked… and after reboot nothing worked any more. Any ideas?
Thanks so much!
You are also using standard kernel 4.4.62-18.6-default and still amdgpu-pro 16.50?
Amdgpu-pro 16.60 and 17.10 are not installing for me, because of dkms errors.
Yes, kernel status is 4.4.62-18.6-default, and the driver version I tried to install is amdgpu-pro-16.50-365149. BTW, as I tried to install 17.10 there was apparently no dkms problem
Thanks!
You are right, i didn´t install 17.10 because AMD says its still buggy.
Good, the combination you are currently using was working very good for me for the last 3 month.
Unfortunattely i´m having also problems now since the weekend. For me its not a crash of plasma,
but with chrome, firefox and vivaldi while watching streams (5 to xx min). Never had this before.
I opend a new thread, wich may help you also i hope :https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/525094-Browser-crash-while-watching-streams-with-Amdgpu-pro-16-50
For now you may check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for:
AMDGPU(0): amdgpu_dri2_flip_event_handler: Pageflip completion event has impossible msc 97791 < target_msc 97792
This is a well known problem with ubuntu, but it wasn´t present with leap 42.2 since …
Something changed the last 3 weeks, so its now here also.
There is a workaround : https://community.amd.com/thread/205475
I´m testing now, if it helps for the browser/crash problem also.
Thank you very much, testi55, for your commitment; I checked Xorg.0.log for this line, but couldn’t find it, so I guess it must be another bug.
Thanks anyway
I don’t believe that amdgpu-pro 16.50 runs without problems, at least not with any 32 Bit application that uses OpenGL. Try to run steam and you see the X server crashing.
Any newer versions that 16.50 don’t compile on my openSUSE Leap 42.2 system with standard kernel.
In my opinion the amdgpu pro driver at this time, and at least on openSUSE, is full of bugs.
Some month ago I send some bug reports to amd, no response.
The only good thing, is that amd supports the open source driver.
For the most things the non pro open source amdgpu version runs much better on my system. Also the steam games, I tried, work well.
But unfortunately I need a newer amdgpu version than that which comes with the 4.4 kernel from Leap 42.2. So I must update my system to a newer kernel / newer mesa system.
The coming Leap 42.3 seems not to solve this problems, because it stays on kernel 4.4. The mesa system on Leap 42.3 gets an update but, at this time, the libllvm version used on mesa stays on version 3.8 which have known bugs.
So instead update to Leap 42.3 I will try Tumbleweed soon, which have newer kernel, newer mesa and newer libllvm.
I like the Leap approach for a more stable system and not so many updates as Tumbleweed, but it is useless, if it not works on actual hardware (actual, not brand new) and known bugs aren’t solved.
blachner
I see it different. The probs your are reffering to are steam with Opensuse probs, not 16.50 probs.
I never used steam on opensuse, but with ubuntu 16.04 and 16.50. Everything is running as expected.
No 32bit application here, so i repeat, 16.50 was running without any probs with my pc. Even the
Superposition Benchmark passed without problems. The crashes i have are new (one week), so i think
they are not 16.50 related, which i use for more than 3 months already.
Agree with the probs of the newer drivers.
The amdgpu driver for Ubuntu includes 32 Bit binaries. The driver for SLED not. Only AMD knows why.
If I install the amdgpu pro driver 16.50 on Leap 42.2 the X server crashes after starting steam. With the open source driver steam just works, including games like Civ6, Cities Skylines and Tomb Raider. So this is clearly not a problem with steam on opensuse, its a problem of the amdgpu pro driver.
Maybe that it works well if you don’t use any 32 Bit applications. For me it also works, as long as I don’t use any 32 Bit application. There are problems with non working VPDAU too, but this could be fixed by setting some file links.