I have one of the high performance Intel NUCs (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/boards-kits/nuc/kits/nuc8i7hvk.html) I would like to install Leap 15 on, but it seems I am running into issues because the Radeon RX Vega M GH graphics don’t seem to be supported, but I am lead to believe that the newest kernel release, 4.18, has integrated support for these chipsets.
I am wondering if those drivers are going to be backported to 4.12, or if there is a simpler way to get the updated kernel into Leap 15.
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OK, just watch out for potential wayland issues with your applications, else there is still the ability to run x11. Also recommend the GNOME shell extension TopIcons Plus if you need tray icons…
Just out of curiosity, why is that with these opensource drivers that you need to install a complete new kernel to get a single driver?
Why can’t it be like with the proprietary driver for nvidia, just download and install?
I am impressed with the progress of the AMD open source driver and thinking about if my next videocard will be an AMD one.
But if I have to keep changing kernels just to have best perfomance out of the card then I will stick to nvidia.
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You can just build the kernel module, I did this earlier on when amdgpu arrived, but also needed to build not only this but the supporting packages eg xf86-video-amdgpu (as well as patch for my mullins card pci_id’s and firmware). It also depends on actual kernel changes which may/maynot be present in the earlier kernel…
Until I see the PCI ID’s of the OP’s card as there is some vega support in the Leap 15.0 kernel… to date I’ve not had any issues with amdgpu driver.
Ah OK so it is possible to build it yourself.
That is good to know.
I just kept seeing people saying that you have to wait until a new kernel comes out, or upgrade the kernel.
Now i wish I had a fast AMD card just to check it out lol!
But I bought an nvidia 1060 card earlyer this year… so no more money for videocards left!
lspci doesn’t tell us which driver you are or have tried to use.
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run in an xterm will tell us. It sounds like you’ve tried only the amdgpu driver so far. There is another competent driver worth a try that may obviate immediate need for a newer kernel. It’s built into the xserver, so either configure it via xorg.conf, or uninstall xf86-video-amdcpu so that the server can automatically at least try to use it.
Hope this is helpful. I am waiting for the next release of the installer and then will try again. The 8-15 snapshot only allowed me to install via the text installer, so I’m hoping the next snapshot release will give me the graphical option.