Fedora 39, Blender doesn't detect AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Graphics Card

kylerconway · November 17, 2023, 7:32pm

Blender, whether installed from repository or flatpak or downloaded directly doesn’t detect my graphics card. My understanding is that it should. After some perhaps misguided commands from the forums here (fedora 36-37) and this guide here: SIGs/HC - Fedora Project Wiki my Blender now freezes when I open it and try to get into the Preferences.

Some system details below, but any leads appreciated. Happy to provide whatever output would be helpful.

System Details Report

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Date generated: 2023-11-17 13:26:19

Hardware Information:

Hardware Model: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PRO WI-FI
Memory: 32.0 GiB
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X × 16
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 XT
Disk Capacity: 13.5 TB

Software Information:

Firmware Version: 4802
OS Name: Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition)
OS Build: (null)
OS Type: 64-bit
GNOME Version: 45.1
Windowing System: Wayland
Kernel Version: Linux 6.5.11-300.fc39.x86_64

jakfrost · November 17, 2023, 8:36pm

Hello @kylerconway ,
Does rocminfo show your card?

kylerconway · November 17, 2023, 8:46pm

It seems to, yes. Agent #2: Marketing Name: AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT

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jakfrost · November 17, 2023, 9:28pm

I’m sorry I can’t really help much with this, my AMD is integrated (5600G CPU) so it doesn’t come up as being hardware that rocminfo is happy about. But, the Blender issue is more related to the OpenGL driver in use is it not?

kylerconway · November 17, 2023, 9:29pm

No worries. Thanks for helping me get more useful info in there. On OpenGL, I don’t know. If there’s something to try there I’ll certainly try it.

jakfrost · November 17, 2023, 9:31pm

Well, the last time I played with blender, I had to load OpenGL drivers for it to even think about my card, but this was back 2007 ish so … Otherwise I just got software rendering which was entirely unsatisfactory. I think I got them from the AMD site though.

kylerconway · November 22, 2023, 5:29pm

I still haven’t figured this out but appreciate your help!

kylerconway · November 22, 2023, 5:58pm

I’d read on an earlier version that the AMDGPU driver worked, and I noticed that it’s X11 so I switched to X11 but still get the same error.

Does anyone in Fedora-land know what I’m missing here?

kylerconway · November 22, 2023, 6:04pm

Installing rocm-hip from this thread: 7950X build with Radeon 6800 card - proper drivers for Fedora 37? - #9 by ozeszty

After reboot blender now freezes when opening preferences in X11.

It also freezes in Wayland. So with rocm-hip package blender is un-useable now.

kylerconway · November 22, 2023, 7:34pm

This thread seems to outline at least part of the issue. It’s possible that I have drivers installed fine, but Blender itself is having an issues with this series of card. Seems like 1 year and no progress? I’m skimming, but putting this here for anyone else trying to track things down.

kylerconway · November 22, 2023, 8:36pm

This thread seems very productive and informative, but I can’t tell if things apply to f39 or not. How can I get started with Blender Cycles/HIP Rendering? - #30 by mystro256

My versions seem to be updated (rocm-hip @ 5.7.1, hip-devel @ 5.7.1, rocm-hip-devel @ 5.7.1), but maybe I need the copr repo?

@mystro256 - Have things changed in f39 or am I just experiencing some bad luck?

mystro256 · November 23, 2023, 1:16pm

What’s your HW? What AMD product are you using?

kylerconway · November 24, 2023, 4:35pm

System Details Report

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Date generated: 2023-11-24 10:34:39

Hardware Information:

Hardware Model: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PRO WI-FI
Memory: 32.0 GiB
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X × 16
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 XT
Disk Capacity: 13.5 TB

Software Information:

Firmware Version: 4802
OS Name: Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition)
OS Build: (null)
OS Type: 64-bit
GNOME Version: 45.1
Windowing System: Wayland
Kernel Version: Linux 6.5.12-300.fc39.x86_64

madrugada · November 29, 2023, 1:13am

my entire system crashes when trying to use rocm-hip in blender on an rx 6750 xt. Any ideas on what might help?

System details report

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Date it was generated: 2023-11-28 22:12:58

Hardware Information:

Hardware model: SOYO SY-YL B550M
Memory: 32.0 GiB
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600X × 12
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 6750 XT
Disk capacity: 1.7 TB

Software Information:

Firmware version: 5.17
OS Name: Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition)
OS Build: (null)
OS Type: 64-bit
GNOME Version: 45.1
Window system: Wayland
Kernel check: Linux 6.5.12-300.fc39.x86_64

madrugada · November 29, 2023, 1:16am

my hardware is also broken, I suspect rocm 5.7 has problems. I didn’t have the opportunity to test it on another distro.

jakfrost · December 2, 2023, 12:57pm

Hello @kylerconway ,I see you’re still having issue with this. Did you try the last bit of the solution of the posting you linked (I bet you did but I ask anyway)? Specifically this one … “For every new Blender session, before rendering with Cycles, opened Blender’s Preferences menu.” . This would seem to mean something with Blender is not recognizing the card until the preferences dialogue is opened. Possibly Blender is the actual culprit or at least how it expects your hardware to represent itself. Does an older kernel help? or a newer one from rawhide maybe?

sippnonacorona · December 7, 2023, 12:38pm

I’m using Fedora 39 KDE and Blender 4.0.

Blender would not see my Radeon RX 6400 card. I was able to resolve this with the following steps. I’m pretty much a noob with the technical side of drivers. I had plenty of frustrating failures and freezes in Blender before I came this sequence of steps.

(as a side note, I didn’t actually use amdgpu-install in this process)

I reviewed this info: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/126d951/amd_rocmhip_support_on_fedora_37

DOWNLOAD RHEL AMDGPU REPOS:
amdgpu-install-5.7.50702-1.el8.noarch.rpm
amdgpu-install-5.7.50702-1.el9.noarch.rpm
from https://www.amd.com/en/support/linux-drivers

After download, I right-clicked and selected install with dnfdragoria.
(I have to appologize here. I don’t remember which of the two downloads worked. See below)
This installed the necessary RHEL repos for F39 to use.

I then changed the .repo files:

EDIT: /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo
[rocm]
name=ROCm 5.4.3 repository
baseurl=Index of /rocm/rhel9/5.4.3/main/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
priority=50
gpgkey=file:///etc/amdgpu-install/rocm.gpg.key

EDIT: /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo
[amdgpu]
name=AMDGPU 5.4.3 repository
baseurl=Index of /amdgpu/5.4.3/rhel/9.1/main/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/amdgpu-install/rocm.gpg.key

[amdgpu-src]
name=AMDGPU 5.4.3 repository
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/5.4.3/rhel/9.1/main/source
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/amdgpu-install/rocm.gpg.key

EDIT: /etc/yum.repos.d/andgpu-proprietary.repo

Enabling this repository requires acceptance of the following license:

/usr/share/amdgpu-install/AMDGPUPROEULA

[amdgpu-proprietary]
name=AMDGPU 5.4.3 Proprietary repository
baseurl=Index of /amdgpu/5.4.3/rhel/9.1/proprietary/x86_64/
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/amdgpu-install/rocm.gpg.key

I then ran the following commands:
sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install rocm-hip-runtime rocm-hip-runtime-devel

NOTE: This is where I can into errors. DNF complained about conflicts.
I ran sudo dnf remove rocm-hip-runtime rocm-hip-runtime-devel
I then right-clicked on the other downloaded file and installed it with dnfdragoria.

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install rocm-hip-runtime rocm-hip-runtime-devel

After this, Blender was happy:
BLENDER > Edit > Preferences > System > HIP
It displayed a drop-down confirming my AMD Radeon RX 6400

For those that are technically savy, please feel free to recommend other thoughts on improving what I did above. I’m always interested in looking at a variety of ideas and learning something new.

kylerconway · December 8, 2023, 2:13am

Thanks for reaching out! I did indeed try that.

Even right now I’m still seeing the following in blender (that it’s not seeing the card). It’s doesn’t seem to crash anymore, but it’s not fast.

I have not experimented with older or newer kernels, though I’d be willing to if it made sense to try (but as you say, I have no idea where the issue is here).

This is even though the system does see the card.

System Details Report

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Date generated: 2023-12-07 20:12:03

Hardware Information:

Hardware Model: ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PRO WI-FI
Memory: 32.0 GiB
Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800X × 16
Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 6800 XT
Disk Capacity: 13.5 TB

Software Information:

Firmware Version: 4802
OS Name: Fedora Linux 39 (Workstation Edition)
OS Build: (null)
OS Type: 64-bit
GNOME Version: 45.1
Windowing System: Wayland
Kernel Version: Linux 6.6.2-201.fc39.x86_64

kylerconway · December 8, 2023, 2:16am

Thanks so much for sharing. I may go down this road if needed. Sadly one of the primary reasons I was interested in an AMD card was not having to use the official, EULA’d drivers, but perhaps that will be the solution. I’ll hold out for a bit longer in case we can learn more, but it’s awesome that you posted a solution that worked for you here! I’m glad to see that others are having/have had problems as well!

jakfrost · December 8, 2023, 12:17pm

Hi @kylerconway ,
This would seem to be an AMD driver thing according to this … Radeon RX6800 XT should be supported but not recognized by Blender 3.5 in both Ubuntu and Windows - User Feedback - Developer Forum. I wonder whether the amdgpu-install -y is available for you. This seems to be the reason though …
rendering - What is the technical reason that Blender cannot use OpenCL on AMD graphics cards? - Blender Stack Exchange.
There is also a version of blender which has luxcorerender support using the cards hardware, but it is a version 2.x not 3.x of Blender. It’s available at the Download – LuxCoreRender