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Posted: **Mon Sep 07, 2020 1:37 am**

Hi Team,

I've been trying for 4 days to get a "valid" AMD card working on Debian 10 Linux. My machine can take 3 GPUs of which one is an NVidia and is running (I more or less "threw it in to test", but it works). It took half a day.

The other two slots I have two AMD HD7700s to fit. At the moment I only have one inserted until I get the drivers and/or Linux to play with F@H.
So far I have installed and uninstalled (tried) mesa drivers which I knew didn't work, AMD Pro (which at the time I didn't know didn't work), ROCm drivers (which seemed to work for others but gave me a kfd error on boot up).
I currently have the Debian OpenCL driver from their repo installed. I have no errors but FAH still complains I have incorrect drivers or the "compute device doesn't match". I know it does match by description, vendor and device according to the GPUs list. Pretty much back where I started last Wednesday.

SO... that leaves the issue with me having missed something or not checked something?

System log dump is below for anyone who might be able to ease my pain.

Thanks in advance.

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*********************** Log Started 2020-09-06T23:41:16Z ***********************
23:41:16:Trying to access database...
23:41:16:Successfully acquired database lock
23:41:16:Read GPUs.txt
23:41:16:Enabled folding slot 00: READY cpu:22
23:41:17:Enabled folding slot 01: READY gpu:0:GF106 [Quadro 2000]  480
23:41:17:Enabled folding slot 02: READY gpu:1:R575A [Radeon R7 250X/HD 7700/8760]
23:41:17:ERROR:No compute devices matched GPU #1 {
23:41:17:ERROR:  "vendor": 4098,
23:41:17:ERROR:  "device": 26685,
23:41:17:ERROR:  "type": 1,
23:41:17:ERROR:  "species": 5,
23:41:17:ERROR:  "description": "R575A [Radeon R7 250X/HD 7700/8760]"
23:41:17:ERROR:}.  You may need to update your graphics drivers.
23:41:17:****************************** FAHClient ******************************
23:41:17:        Version: 7.6.13
23:41:17:         Author: Joseph Coffland <[email protected]>
23:41:17:      Copyright: 2020 foldingathome.org
23:41:17:       Homepage: https://foldingathome.org/
23:41:17:           Date: Apr 28 2020
23:41:17:           Time: 04:20:16
23:41:17:       Revision: 5a652817f46116b6e135503af97f18e094414e3b
23:41:17:         Branch: master
23:41:17:       Compiler: GNU 8.3.0
23:41:17:        Options: -std=c++11 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -O3
23:41:17:                 -funroll-loops -fno-pie
23:41:17:       Platform: linux2 4.19.0-5-amd64
23:41:17:           Bits: 64
23:41:17:           Mode: Release
23:41:17:           Args: --child /etc/fahclient/config.xml --run-as fahclient
23:41:17:                 --pid-file=/var/run/fahclient.pid --daemon
23:41:17:         Config: /etc/fahclient/config.xml
23:41:17:******************************** CBang ********************************
23:41:17:           Date: Apr 25 2020
23:41:17:           Time: 00:07:53
23:41:17:       Revision: ea081a3b3b0f4a37c4d0440b4f1bc184197c7797
23:41:17:         Branch: master
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23:41:17:                 -funroll-loops -fno-pie -fPIC
23:41:17:       Platform: linux2 4.19.0-5-amd64
23:41:17:           Bits: 64
23:41:17:           Mode: Release
23:41:17:******************************* System ********************************
23:41:17:            CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz
23:41:17:         CPU ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 7
23:41:17:           CPUs: 24
23:41:17:         Memory: 188.87GiB
23:41:17:    Free Memory: 186.21GiB
23:41:17:        Threads: POSIX_THREADS
23:41:17:     OS Version: 4.19
23:41:17:    Has Battery: false
23:41:17:     On Battery: false
23:41:17:     UTC Offset: 10
23:41:17:            PID: 3124
23:41:17:            CWD: /var/lib/fahclient
23:41:17:             OS: Linux 4.19.0-10-amd64 x86_64
23:41:17:        OS Arch: AMD64
23:41:17:           GPUs: 2
23:41:17:          GPU 0: Bus:10 Slot:0 Func:0 NVIDIA:2 GF106 [Quadro 2000] 480
23:41:17:          GPU 1: Bus:33 Slot:0 Func:0 AMD:5 R575A [Radeon R7 250X/HD 7700/8760]
23:41:17:  CUDA Device 0: Platform:0 Device:0 Bus:10 Slot:0 Compute:2.1 Driver:9.1
23:41:17:OpenCL Device 0: Platform:0 Device:0 Bus:10 Slot:0 Compute:1.1 Driver:390.138
23:41:17:******************************* libFAH ********************************
23:41:17:           Date: Apr 15 2020
23:41:17:           Time: 21:43:24
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23:41:17:         Branch: master
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23:41:17:                 -funroll-loops -fno-pie
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23:41:17:           Bits: 64
23:41:17:           Mode: Release
23:41:17:***********************************************************************
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23:41:17:  <fold-anon v='true'/>
23:41:17:
23:41:17:  <!-- Folding Slot Configuration -->
23:41:17:  <gpu v='True'/>
23:41:17:
23:41:17:  <!-- Network -->
23:41:17:  <proxy v=':8080'/>
23:41:17:
23:41:17:  <!-- Slot Control -->
23:41:17:  <power v='full'/>
23:41:17:
23:41:17:  <!-- User Information -->
23:41:17:  <passkey v='*****'/>
23:41:17:  <team v='*****'/>
23:41:17:  <user v='TheServerGeek'/>
23:41:17:
23:41:17:  <!-- Folding Slots -->
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23:41:17:    <cpus v='22'/>
23:41:17:  </slot>
23:41:17:  <slot id='1' type='GPU'/>
23:41:17:  <slot id='2' type='GPU'/>
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23:41:17:WU03:FS01:Starting
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23:41:17:WU04:FS00:Starting
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23:41:17:WU04:FS00:Started FahCore on PID 3143
23:41:17:WU04:FS00:Core PID:3147
23:41:17:WU04:FS00:FahCore 0xa7 started
23:41:17:WU00:FS02:Connecting to assign1.foldingathome.org:80
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:*********************** Log Started 2020-09-06T23:41:17Z ***********************
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:*************************** Core22 Folding@home Core ***************************
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:       Core: Core22
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23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:    Version: 0.0.11
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:     Author: Joseph Coffland <[email protected]>
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:  Copyright: 2020 foldingathome.org
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:   Homepage: https://foldingathome.org/
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:       Date: Jun 27 2020
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:       Time: 22:50:00
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23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:    Options: -std=c++11 -fsigned-char -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -O3
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:             -funroll-loops
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:   Platform: linux2 4.19.76-linuxkit
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:       Bits: 64
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:       Mode: Release
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:Maintainers: John Chodera <[email protected]> and Peter Eastman
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:             <[email protected]>
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23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:************************************ libFAH ************************************
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:       Date: Jun 27 2020
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:       Time: 22:11:04
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23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:************************************ CBang *************************************
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23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:       Time: 22:10:11
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23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:Free Memory: 186.21GiB
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23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22: UTC Offset: 10
23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:        PID: 3140
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23:41:17:WU03:FS01:0x22:Digital signatures verified
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23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:*********************** Log Started 2020-09-06T23:41:17Z ***********************
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23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:       Time: 11:26:54
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23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:    Version: 0.0.19
23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:     Author: Joseph Coffland <[email protected]>
23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:  Copyright: 2019 foldingathome.org
23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:   Homepage: https://foldingathome.org/
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23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:       Time: 00:41:42
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23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:Unit: 0x0000012196880e6e5e97db27d5381e25
23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:Digital signatures verified
23:41:18:WU04:FS00:0xa7:Reducing thread count from 22 to 21 to avoid domain decomposition with large prime factor 11
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23:41:29:WU03:FS01:0x22:ERROR:Potential energy error of 11.7691, threshold of 10
23:41:29:WU03:FS01:0x22:ERROR:Reference Potential Energy: -55463.8 | Given Potential Energy: -55452
23:41:29:WU03:FS01:0x22:Saving result file ../logfile_01.txt
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23:41:29:WU03:FS01:0x22:Saving result file state.xml.bz2
23:41:29:WU03:FS01:0x22:Folding@home Core Shutdown: BAD_WORK_UNIT
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Posted: **Mon Sep 07, 2020 5:42 am**

Older Radeon GPUs and Linux are problematic. AMD dropped full support for Terascale and GCN 1st Gen cards in their proprietary drivers for Linux several years ago, the newest version of the drivers with the necessary OpenCL support date to 2017. Even there you may have to step back a version, there have been reports of incorrect computational results using the last version supporting OpenCL on these cards.

The open source drivers are not usable. The Mesa drivers and its OpenCL support never worked with F@h and AMD did not provide support for these older cards in the ROCm drivers.

The best chance to use these older Radeon HD 7700 cards will be on a Windows system.

P.S. About a year after AMD released most of the HD 7700 series cards, they released the HD 7790. That is based on a GCN 2nd gen GPU chip, and is probably the only HD 7000 series card relatively easily usable on Linux for folding as AMD supported GCN 2 a bit longer.

Posted: **Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:23 am**

Hi, Thanks for the feedback.
I had read that the Mesa drivers did not work. Which was what the default appeared to be.
The fact that some had deprecated their Debian 10 version/drivers or installed a complete older version is probably the case of threads I have read from a few different places.
I only remember seeing one thread I read that mentioned that solution, but it was for an entirely different card with a different processor.

Thanks

Posted: **Mon Sep 07, 2020 7:59 am**

The way I got an old AMD card (7770 HD) to fold on a linux machine was by setting up a virtual machine and using IOMMU to pass the 7770 HD card to the virtual macine, then use Windows or an older version of Linux to fold in the virtual machine. More details here: viewtopic.php?p=340362#p340362

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