First time Opensuse User, and loving it! Just some questions abot mesa

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Hello everyone. After years trying many linux distros I decided to give Tumbleweed a try and it really looks amazing. Stable, updated and easy. So far so good! :slight_smile:

I am using a 7800X3D + 7900XTX primarily for gaming and light internet + youtube surfing in Firefox.

KDE + Wayland + Scaling was easy to set-up in my LG OLED 4K HDR 120Hz using HDMI 2.1.

But, (and sorry if the question seems too obvious) how can I know which MESA version am I using? Because seems like I don’t have any installed:

rpm -qi mesa
package mesa is not installed

I’m a bit confused here, and I coulnd’t find any answer after googling about it.

Thanks!

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zypper se -si mesa

I assume you must know this since you have everything setup already, but the package manager is zypper.
Also, makesure you have the Packman repo enabled. It provides all of the multimedia codecs that openSUSE doesn’t, which you will need for gaming. After you enable the Packman repo run sudo zypper dup --allow-vendor-change

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rpm is case sensitive, so you should have found it with:

rpm -qi Mesa

but please get used to using zypper.
The Mesa version in the Packman repo adds some video hardware decoding which the open source version lacks; if you don’t need that you are good to go with the OSS version in the standard repo.

And, BTW, welcome to openSUSE and to the Forum!

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Thanks for the anser! Yes, I’ve been using zypper and installed opi codecs too (is that what you meant about the codecs?)

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That totally was it… After your -qi Mesa I’ve got this

pm -qi Mesa
Name        : Mesa
Version     : 24.2.6
Release     : 1699.395.pm.1
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon 11 Nov 2024 12:55:23 AM CET
Group       : System/Libraries
Size        : 9589
License     : MIT
Signature   : RSA/SHA1, Fri 08 Nov 2024 01:26:13 PM CET, Key ID 45a1d0671abd1afb
Source RPM  : Mesa-24.2.6-1699.395.pm.1.src.rpm
Build Date  : Wed 06 Nov 2024 06:34:15 PM CET
Build Host  : reproducible
Packager    : packman@links2linux.de
Vendor      : http://packman.links2linux.de
URL         : https://www.mesa3d.org
Summary     : System for rendering 3-D graphics

So: How can I know if I have the OSS Mesa or the Packman Mesa?

Thanks so much dude! This community seems amazingly friendly :slight_smile:

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What is not clear in

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Yep, just saw it. Thanks!

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It is better to use DP instead of HDMI with AMD open drivers.

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My LG OLED C2 doesn’t have DP :frowning:

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You’re using screen 4K + HDR at 120 Hz via HDMI?
It works OK?
Some users report about problems with AMD GPUs & HDMI 2.1+.

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duplicated post

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Yeps. Even with scaling enabled at (125%) That’s on 8bit though.
On windows I can get 12bit HDR10 4k 120Hz.
But I won’t complain, as KDE is making good progres implementing good HDR on Wayland and at the moment zero issues with scaling. Gnome support for HDR is horrible. I just hope the window position and size would be automatically remembered instead of having to manually set Window Rules for each application.

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Right now AMD has troubles with HDMI 2.1+ because it uses open driver - amdgpu, and HDMI Forum requires hiding info about realization of HDMI 2.1+.

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I wonder if using a DP to HDMI adapter would make things better as the signal will come out the DP port…

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You can test it.

DP can output HDMI signal by itself, but with limitations: DisplayPort Dual-Mode (DP++).

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