Interested In FreeSync With The RADV Vulkan Driver? Testing Help Is Needed

[Creak]

Creak I got my new laptop Asus FX705DY and got it working

Thank you!
In the end a whole lot seems to work almost out of the box, that's nice!

[leonmaxx]

Ok, now bad news, the reviewer too have problem with CPU stuck at 400MHz: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment...adeon_rx_560x/

For me bios 306 does not changed anything, CPU under load do throttle and stuck at 400MHz and do not recover until reboot.
I do not recommend buying this laptop until CPU overheating is resolved by bios update, acpi table fix, whatever.

[Creak]

Ok, now bad news, the reviewer too have problem with CPU stuck at 400MHz: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comment...adeon_rx_560x/

For me bios 306 does not changed anything, CPU under load do throttle and stuck at 400MHz and do not recover until reboot.
I do not recommend buying this laptop until CPU overheating is resolved by bios update, acpi table fix, whatever.

Oh that's sad
The "good" part is that apparently the bug also happens on a regular Windows.

[leonmaxx]

ACPI errors that I get on boot are probably related. Bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203041
Also I sent two e-mails to ASUS with description of CPU problem and ACPI errors.
Will see.

[leonmaxx]

As I expected ASUS answered that they don't support Linux. Nice .

[leonmaxx]

fix bios parsing.

Will do when I'll have some free time. Seems like I need a vacation.

[moriel5]

debianxfce From what I understand this is just a list of laptops sold without an OS; it doesn't mean that it is compatible with Linux. Moreover, even though there are some mention of Linux on the first page, I moved the price cursor for something a bit beefier (above 1500 EUR) and then there is just no mention of Linux at all in the results.

There is an OS, they just don't specify.
Laptop matrix (sort of):
Dell brings either Windows or Ubuntu;
HP brings either Windows or their own custom Linux distro (with an ancient kernel), HP-Docs;
Lenovo brings either Windows or FreeDOS;
ASUS brings either Windows, eOS (not elementary), or another Linux distro (I forget which, perhaps Mint);
I'm not sure about Acer or Toshiba, however I'm guessing that they probably have either FreeDOS or some Linux distro (or both), in addition to Windows.

[Creak]

moriel5 Not that I don't believe you, but I need more facts behind these claims. I know for a fact that Dell sells laptops with Ubuntu on it, and it's easy to verify, there is an official page for them on Dell's website, it's even the first result when I search for "dell laptop linux". But for the other brands, it quickly starts to be blurry. For instance, I searched for "asus laptop linux site:asus.com" there was no official webpage whatsoever.

So I did some research:

• Dell has a dedicated page: https://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555...inux-laptop_us
• HP has a dedicated page: https://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/ubuntu/index.html
• Lenovo says they support it in their FAQ, but I haven't seen the option in their store: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/faqs/pc...what-is-linux/
  (if you got on their shop and filter by OS, you'll see that there is no mention of Linux, except Chrome OS, but I don't consider it a "real" Linux IMO)
• For Acer the only website I've seen that offers laptops with "Linpus Linux" is their Indian page: https://www.acer.com/ac/en/IN/content/models/laptops, otherwise there's no mention of supporting Linux officially
• For Toshiba the only vaguely related page is this one: https://support.toshiba.com/support/...ntentId=108360 which has been updated in 1999... So clearly not up to date.
• As for Razer, they shown interest by officially opening a forum dedicated to Linux, but they still don't support Linux officially

[fuzz]

What prevents Bas or some other Mesa developer to merge this simple great patch to the mainline Mesa? The radv freesync patch is written two months ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing

[Creak]

The simple RADV freesync patch is a copy paste from the OpenGL driver and works as good as with the OpenGL driver.The RADV freesync patch is tested by several people and developers informed.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bnieu...6523ca7bcc8b46

From the commit you linked: "HACK: vulkan/wsi: enable freesync."

HACK

Maybe that's why?

Edit: Moreover, it's on the "freesync" branch. So your argument that "The RADV freesync patch is tested by several people and developers informed" is probably completely wrong. I doubt that a vast majority of devs are testing his branch. They are more likely testing the latest master branch.