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Here's a quick guide to install amdgpu-dkms + mesa-git to get Navi cards working on Linux 5.2.x:

$ cat <<EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf
[mesa-git]
Server = https://pkgbuild.com/~lcarlier/\$repo/\$arch
SigLevel = PackageOptional
EOF

$ sudo pacman -Syu dkms linux-headers mesagit
$ curl https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/amdgpu-dkms.tar.gz | tar -xvzf - 
$ cd amdgpu-dkms
$ makepkg -si
$ sudo reboot

Note that amdgpu-dkms cannot be used with linux-zen (the driver will segfault on boot and you need a hard poweroff to turn the machine off).

@gardotd426 unfortunately I'm no longer using Arch. Since AMDGPU now targets 5.4.x it should be relatively easy to repackage without the need to patch for compatibility.

From a quick glance, 20.30 code this seems to be 5.6 driver code plus few features backported from -staging (mainly support for unreleased Sienna Cichlid/Navi 21/RX 6000 whatever you name it). If anything, linux-amd-staging-drm-next-git should contains all the fixes that exists in 20.30.

@sirn, Please update this to the actual newest driver release (20.30). There is a suggestion that the 20.30 dkms driver solves long-standing driver crashes for some Navi users (and no, 20.30's dkms is not identical to the upstream kernel driver).

The entire package structure of the tarball has changed, amdgpu-dkms's versioning system seems to have changed, the PKGBUILD fails even with substituting the correct url, package number version, all that, because of a changed directory structure within the .deb package.

[Ignore, please set this as DEPRECATED as the module has been merged upstream .... ]

This package fails to compile so far with: linux-5.7.8-arch1-1 (look for the drmP.h that doesn't exist anymore) linux-5.7.8-AMD (look for the drmP.h that doesn't exist anymore) linux-5.4.51-1-lts (/include/kcl/kcl_reservation.h:4:10: fatal error: linux/reservation.h: No such file or directory)

Can we set the dependencies right so we don't have to fish in the dark for a compatible linux version? Does the 19.50 fix some of those issues?

@TomCatT you should not need to use this package with kernel 5.3, the in-kernel amdgpu driver is already newer than AMDGPU 19.30.

I get this error

LD [M] /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-19.30/855429/build/ttm/amdttm.o make[1]: [scripts/Makefile.build:497: /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-19.30/855429/build/amd/amdgpu] Error 2 make: [Makefile:1626: module/var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-19.30/855429/build] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/5.3.6-1-MANJARO/build'

@Terence I’m out of town at the moment, but I’ll look into it as soon as I’m back!

@sirn I tried it again but for some reason now it's working. I'm wondering it was something with my graphic card (Vega 56).

• linux-tkg 5.2 with ck-patcheset and some stuffs from zen: https://github.com/Tk-Glitch/PKGBUILDS/tree/master/linux52-tkg

• mesa-aco-git

• Put the following to enable freesync:

Section "Device"
     Identifier "AMD"
     Driver "amdgpu"
     Option "VariableRefresh" "true"
     Option "DRI" "3"
EndSection

And the black screen occured when I turned it on from the monitor settings.

PS: Do you think you can include the 2 patches (radeon_extratemps-5.2.patch and amdgpu_extratemps-5.2.patch) from the repo I linked you?

@Terence I don’t use Freesync, but can you tell me more about your setup?

Hmm freesync seems broken with this package? I get a black screen upon activating it.

@sirn Ah ok thank you very much for the clarification. Do you think you can include https://github.com/matszpk/amdgpu-vega-hotspot ?