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Tiny Core 12.0 Alpha 1 Testing
curaga:
The SI and CIK AMDGPU options are not enabled. The radeon module is what was intended for those cards, and gives them full functionality and less bugs. If you want amdgpu for some reason, you'll need a custom kernel.
nick65go:
@curaga: Thanks for the clarification. It is not what I expected from a modern kernel 5.10.x, but at least now I know it is about kernel compile options that TC developers choose for their distribution.The radeon driver works OK (except insane default brightness). So I wanted to try/test amdgpu driver for my UEFI laptop, to see if it could have longer batery life, if not then better performance, etc.
Without radeon driver /dev/dri/card is not created by the kernel, so Xorg is not loading amdgpu.
Could you please copy/paste the few options from .config (for kernel) to be activated, so that amdgpu becoming default video driver?
Juanito:
--- Quote from: nick65go on January 12, 2021, 06:28:44 PM ---Anyway. I manually add few tcz which are not yet in TC12 (gdk-pixbuf2.tcz, gamin.tcz) and firefox is running.
--- End quote ---
gdk-pixbuf2 was already in the tc-12.x repos, but gamin and firefox_getLatest (and kmaps) copied over
nick65go:
--- Quote ---gdk-pixbuf2 was already in the tc-12.x repos, but gamin and firefox_getLatest (and kmaps) copied over
--- End quote ---
maybe you are right, but now (13/01/2021 at 12:45 my time in Austria), they are not in http://tinycorelinux.net/12.x/x86_64/tcz/. looking from MS Windows10, so maybe just the list is not updated, but the tcz are in folder as invisible files.
nick65go:
@xor: regarding "potentially enabling AMDGPU support by default for GCN 1.0/1.1 era hardware in place of the Radeon DRM driver."
from https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.10-Feature-Recap
it seams to me that my AMD A6-6310 APU [with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics] is type GCN 2.x (code CIK, or Sea Islands) acording to
https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/#decoderringforengineeringvsmarketingnames
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU#Kernel
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_(SI)_and_Sea_Islands_(CIK)_support
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