How Driver for new AMD Graphic Card?

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Hi Gurus,

please recommend how i should proceed regards Drivers if buying a new AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT.

Leap 15.5 is great and i love it, but obviously will proceed with out of date Kernels having new Graphic Cards in mind.
An upgrade to Tumbleweed appears to be impossible due to SHA issues.
A Kernel upgrade did not work neither due to MOK issues.
AMD offers Drivers for Linux, but a quick Internet Search provided lots of warnings using such due to implications with Kernel and Mesa.

So what shall i do if going for a new Graphic Card needed for gaming?

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You have been told how to avoid those problems.

Maybe you can try Leap 15.6-Beta. It does have a newer kernel than 15.5. And it wont require complicated changes.

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Add Radeon repo & install Mesa 3D or proprietary drivers.

https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.0.3/sle/15.5/
https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/6.0.3/sle/15.5/

Please provide links.

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Examples of driver vs Kernel version:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=362748

As a Newbie, I read this as better be careful with which Kernel for which AMD driver and double careful with changing Kernels once AMD driver is installed.
Is my impression incorrect?

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15.6 beta is available now. Official 15.6 release is scheduled for June 12. I have 14 15.6 installations now, with another expected by the end of today.

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Thanks guys. I learned a lot from the peeps in this forum. Really appreciated.

I will wait for the official Leap 15.6 and give more time for saving my money till end of year or later when a good second Gen GPU will have become more affordable :wink:

And I will keep an eye on the amdgpu option in context of the upcoming Leap 15.6 Kernel.

And yes, I will stay with Leap Gnome for sure, me loving it. (I just need to keep an eye on the root partion, which strangely fills up quick … )

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AMD provides official support for SLE = openSUSE Leap. Updated firmware files are included.