SOLVED - Switching to AMD GPU| blender issues
from KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 18 Feb 21:59
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/30734752

I upgraded my trusty old GTX1060 to a RX7600XT. Everything works as it should except for blender. It doesn’t find the GPU as a rendering device.

Since the driver manager states “No drivers needed” and when running glxinfo | grep “OpenGL version” in the terminal, it outputs OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.2.8-1ubuntu1~24.04.1 I figured I had all important drivers installed.

I don’t know why blender won’t find the GPU. Do you have any advice for a newbie?

sys specs

Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon Linux Kernel 6.8.0-53-generic CPU Ryzen 7 5800x GPU RX7600XT MoBo MSI B550A-Pro RAM 16 GB @3600mHz

Solution: Didn’t have ROCm installed. For anyone with the same issue, here is a link to the guide I used. I don’t know if these were necessary for the solution, but here are the amd drivers, just in case ;)

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Xanza@lemm.ee on 18 Feb 22:27 next collapse

Do you have it installed via flatpack/snap? IIRC flatpack/snap doesn’t support AMD Hip.

Grab the tarball from here and give that a shot.

KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Feb 22:39 collapse

Had it installed via steam, gave it a shot, sadly didn’t work. But thanks still :D

Xolipher@lemmy.ca on 18 Feb 23:20 next collapse

What version of Blender do you have running? You can try to add yourself to the video and render group which may get it working. In terminal:

sudo usermod -a -G video [user] 
sudo usermod -a -G render [user]
folekaule@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 00:01 next collapse

I had this issue and it only worked when I downloaded it from the website and ran it, not from steam or flatpak. I don’t have it installed anymore and I’m not sure what the underlying issue was, but you can try that.

fauntleroy@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Feb 00:26 collapse

Maybe you have to install the proprietary driver including the OpenCL stack. See …readthedocs.io/…/install-installing.html