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  • schmidtbag
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    Originally posted by M@GOid View Post
    ...even on Windows I do not mess with the GUI that much, because I consider overcloking a GPU a complete loss of time and energy for the tiny gains in performance.
    Depends on the GPU. Sometimes it makes a pretty substantial performance difference (the Pascal cards seem to benefit a lot from OCing) meanwhile undervolting is often a good way to help reduce heat, noise, or [oddly] instability (take Vega for example). Considering both AMD and Nvidia are making it more and more difficult to modify the BIOSes, having proper tools to tweak clock settings is welcome IMO.
    Of course I understand other people have different needs than I, so what I want to say is, if a GUI for Linux is released, I probably will look at it one or two times and forget it exist.
    I can probably say the same for myself.

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  • M@GOid
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    Well, I did not miss anything. I configure the things I need on the applications, and even on Windows I do not mess with the GUI that much, because I consider overcloking a GPU a complete loss of time and energy for the tiny gains in performance.

    Of course I understand other people have different needs than I, so what I want to say is, if a GUI for Linux is released, I probably will look at it one or two times and forget it exist.

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  • davidbepo
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    i also want better support for video hardware acceleration (especially for raven) and upstreaming of all (amdkfd,llvm...) patches

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  • aufkrawall
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    Is it possible with Mesa + Radeon to change HDMI levels for Wayland compositors? It seems that it's not possible for Intel (you have to use xrandr).

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  • Guest
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    It's been about two years since talking with AMD about having "Radeon Software Settings" for Linux. Back then they said they were investigating the possibility of open-sourcing their GUI control panel, which at the time had recently been rewritten in Qt5. They were optimistic about open-sourcing it in the future and in the mean time were working on exposing more of the driver's tunables and monitor-able information via kernel ioctls and other interfaces. Much of that information is now exposed nicely to user-space, but no Radeon Software Settings yet.
    If they do release, and support, open-source "Radeon Software Settings", then I'll be customer completely loyal to AMD!

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  • chris61
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    Thanks for your information about this theme. You mentioned '.....rather than learning command-line controls ...'. Could you give me a hint where I can find information how to influence the behavior of AMD's graphic cards by terminal commands. Would me help a lot.
    Regards!

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  • schmidtbag
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    Though I don't have a problem with AMD working on something like this, I think there just needs to be a good graphical tool for Mesa drivers in general, other than driconf. The application could always have plugins that are vendor-specific. Making something like this really shouldn't be that hard, since it mostly just comes down to modifying text files. I would gladly make one myself but I don't know enough about the things you can tweak, nor do I have the hardware to do proper testing. I'm not aware of consistent, complete, or reliable documentation to help guide me in such a thing, so it's really best left to the Mesa devs themselves. Personally, I would rather them work on the drivers. Better drivers is (IMO) more important than a GUI tool that most people would never use anyway.

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  • There's One Big Feature Left For The Radeon Linux Driver Left To Tackle In 2018

    Phoronix: There's One Big Feature Left For The Radeon Linux Driver Left To Tackle In 2018

    AMD/Radeon had a stellar 2017 for Linux most notably with delivering working Radeon RX Vega open-source driver support at launch, AMDGPU DC finally being merged to the mainline Linux kernel, and the official "AMDVLK" Vulkan driver now being open-source. Besides never-ending performance tuning, there's really just one major feature/area where the Radeon Linux graphics driver support is missing...

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