HOWTO: AMD Radeon RX 550 on Debian 10 with rocm driver

[qwertz]

Hi,

after some struggling, I finally got my setup running with GPU. This setup includes:

• A PC running Debian Linux Version 10 (Codename buster)
• A AMD Radeon RX 550 Graphics card

I wanted to use Open Source drivers, so I installed rocm, as explained in https://rocm-documentation.readthedocs. ... Guide.html. I did not try proprietary AMD drivers, so I can say nothing about them. I checked it was working by running "clinfo".

I also installed FAH as explained in https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/i ... des/linux/.

Initially FAH worked, but did not use the GPU. So I did the following:

• Add the user fahclient to the group render by running "adduser fahclient render" on a console as root. It is required to access the GPU, but it is not done by default (FAH 7.5.1).
• restart the fahclient outside of systemd

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  systemctl stop FAHClient.service
  /etc/init.d/FAHClient start

  Surprisingly, this made a difference. I do not know why.
• configure the GPU slot with opencl-index=0
• and most important: wait for the latest rocm update! (rocm-dkms version 3.3.0-19, early April 2020)

Then I just needed to verify that FAHControl "System Info" detects the OpenCL Device and finally run folding.

I hope this will help some of you in getting started.

(see also viewtopic.php?f=83&t=32226)

[muziqaz]

Awesome stuff, thank you for your effort. Hopefully it will be helpful for other using Linux and AMD GPUs

[toTOW]

Thread pinned, unless some one complains that it didn't work for him ...

[Rainmaker]

Nice! I'm still battling freezes that I think are attributable to the current proprietary AMD OpenCL driver, as they only happen on Linux not Windows (which runs different versions). Just a question: Did you install rocm-dkms or did you opt to use upstream kernel drivers (as outlined in the install guide you linked)?

[qwertz]

Nice! I'm still battling freezes that I think are attributable to the current proprietary AMD OpenCL driver, as they only happen on Linux not Windows (which runs different versions). Just a question: Did you install rocm-dkms or did you opt to use upstream kernel drivers (as outlined in the install guide you linked)?

Right, I was not precise. I followed the Ubuntu instructions with rocm-dkms, not the Upstream Kernel Drivers.

[holstien]

Hopefully more success stories follow. I have been using the proprietary drivers without issue, but they are so painful to get installed and working.

[braiam]

I did the same. But instead I edited the init file so that it uses root user instead. viewtopic.php?f=106&t=34231