Video drivers not compatible with latest Xorg update

[hippie68]

It seems users can't update anymore because the video drivers are not compatible with the latest Xorg: hippie68/psxitarch-how-to#12

[mirh]

Rebasing/backporting patches to xf86-video-amdgpu shouldn't really be difficult.

[zimsneexh]

xf86-video-amdgpu builds just fine. One of the mesa patches fails to apply however.

[mirh]

Well, that's what gives you the ABI.
If you rebuilt that against old mesa, it should work (for as much as, porting forward the patches would be better of course)

[rinsuki]

currently mesa patches are can't apply due to indent was changed to space from tab. you can edit patch file to fix, like this rinsuki@2194b64#diff-fa976ea7c63402769a8cf849db0a89ae1664f67ff69b25beb9f71b5b20c66fb5

but block noises will appears if contents are rendered with OpenGL and rendering resolution are not small (maybe depends to GPU model)

[mirh]

Well, if that's a(nother) regression, you should bisect it.
For as much as I'm not really sure how quick a rebuild and a reboot are gonna be here compared to a normal computer.

[rinsuki]

sorry this regression is occured by accidentialy remove prepare phase, please ignore. (that means ps4 patches are not applied :P)

anyway current mesa (21.1+) requires DRM 3.23+ (== Linux 4.15+) for Vulkan on AMD graphics cards, so we need bump linux kernel version or stuck to mesa 21.0.x.

[mirh]

I thought that was already done?
https://github.com/iguy0/PS4Linux-Kernel
https://gbatemp.net/threads/working-bailkal-linux-kernels-for-ps4pros-on-6-72-and-distros.572063/

[zimsneexh]

Seems so.
https://github.com/ps4gentoo/ps4-linux-5.3.7/ is linux-5.3.7 and boots just fine for me and should be enough for latest mesa. Wonder if those patches would apply properly on a 5.15 tree?

[codedwrench]

https://github.com/codedwrench/ps4-linux not without some struggling, but yes

[zimsneexh]

This kernel seems to work fine and so does latest mesa from https://github.com/rinsuki/ps4linux-video-drivers (With some modifications..).

Though, any OpenCL compute workload still segfaults, not sure why..

[mirh]

Heavy/complex/specific workloads, or even just simple hello worlds or opencl-info?
It's not really surprising for bigger kernels to require amd-specific workarounds..

[zimsneexh]

Heavy/complex/specific workloads, or even just simple hello worlds or opencl-info?
It's not really surprising for bigger kernels to require amd-specific workarounds..

'clinfo' is just fine - I tried a few different cryptominers and they all segfault.

[mirh]

That's kinda the former bucket... especially considering there isn't really trainload of vram here.
I'd recommend you this or this way simpler tools.

[Nyihi9998]

Hey I'm still having this problem!
By doing sudo pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu it fixes the black screen problem but my mouse isn't working now.
With the xf86-video-amdgpu-git my mouse and keyboard looks to be working but I get black screen.

[zimsneexh]

Hey I'm still having this problem! By doing sudo pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu it fixes the black screen problem but my mouse isn't working now. With the xf86-video-amdgpu-git my mouse and keyboard looks to be working but I get black screen.

Did you do a partial upgrade? Check X.org log.

[gonzaloaranzana]

did you have any positive results trying to mine?

[zimsneexh]

did you have any positive results trying to mine?

I did not. Running most miners doesn't work with the Mesa OpenCL stack (doesn't detect devices) and the proprietary driver causes the miners (TeamRedMiner and some other one i tried..) to Segfault.

Didn't try much more as the GPU is relatively weak anyway.

[Nyihi9998]

Hey I'm still having this problem! By doing sudo pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu it fixes the black screen problem but my mouse isn't working now. With the xf86-video-amdgpu-git my mouse and keyboard looks to be working but I get black screen.

Did you do a partial upgrade? Check X.org log.

Hey, so for the updateing I followed the steps of 6., but I did the final update with normal pacman sudo pacman -Syu.
I didn't see anything in the xorg logs. On the desktop I realised that I have a mouse but its invisible and when I click anything it resets the dektop.