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Title: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: tle on March 09, 2021, 12:07:09 am: Last week I purchased a new AMD RX 6900 XT for gaming. It was running perfectly fine on my Windows gaming rig.

My first few attempts are unsuccessful, I've tried the stock kernel of Fedora 33 (5.10.20) and Fedora 35 (5.12-rc2) but none could recognise the card correctly. Loading amdgpu yields error (see https://pastebin.com/sEucjVqh for 64K page size and https://pastebin.com/VqwiTx3F for 4K page size), I have submitted an issue upstream at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1519

UPDATE: Fedora 37 (6.10) amdgpu now runs perfectly! OMG!
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]
Post by: pocock on March 09, 2021, 07:51:38 am: As you are using the latest Fedora I suspect you have the latest dependencies, nonetheless, can you confirm you checked the version of:

amd firmware (maybe take directly from Git and copy into your system /lib directory)
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

mesa

Xorg or Wayland? Try both

Maybe we need to develop a small reporting script that people can use to build a comprehensive report of each GPU test, all dependency versions, checksums, logs, key config values, kernel config, etc
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]
Post by: tle on March 09, 2021, 07:57:44 am: I am using the linux-firmware-20210208-117.fc33 which is reported working with x86_64

I will try to grab the latest firmware from git and see if it helps
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]
Post by: tle on March 09, 2021, 08:06:41 am: No good even with the latest firmware from git source :(
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]
Post by: tle on March 14, 2021, 09:59:15 am: Update: have tried with 5.10.23 but with still no success
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]
Post by: pocock on March 15, 2021, 04:12:38 am: Are you using Xorg or Wayland?

It is a good idea to try with both

Have you contacted the amdgpu developers to make a bug report?
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]
Post by: MPC7500 on March 15, 2021, 10:29:00 am: Here is his bug report (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1519).
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]
Post by: tle on March 17, 2021, 08:07:47 am: It crashes instantly when I do `modprobe amdgpu`
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO [WIP]
Post by: tle on March 28, 2021, 07:43:52 am: I've sold my 6900XT to free up the cash for the upcoming Intel DG2. Fingercross Intel would nail the driver correctly
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: MPC7500 on March 28, 2021, 09:24:54 am: I've read somewhere that DG2 is Intel only or something like that. But can't find anymore.
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: tle on March 29, 2021, 04:55:52 am: The DG1 is only compatible with some Intel motherboards. It does not make sense for Intel to launch DG2 that does not run on non-Intel boards
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: MauryG5 on July 28, 2021, 11:31:27 am: Guys where are we with AMD's new 6000 series cards on Power? Has anyone been able to get them to work properly yet? Drivers should have taken a step further to date than when TLE initiated this discussion ...
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: tle on August 02, 2021, 09:52:40 am: AFAIK it is still broken with 5.13.x and 5.14.x as of July 2021
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: tle on November 02, 2022, 10:13:34 pm: It's been more than a year.

Just a bit updates from my side:

* The promising Intel ARC A770 is not supported on ppc64le (because the i915 driver is coupled with codes that runs only x86_64) - unsure when Intel would revamp the driver

Wondering if anyone has given Navi 2-based card a go since 2021 and whether the driver has correctly supported the cards.
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: MPC7500 on November 03, 2022, 04:56:53 am: Raptor has a Navi2. But I don't know if the issue is fixed:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2100#note_1478231
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: tle on November 03, 2022, 06:40:48 pm: That looks promising. Since the 7000 series has been announced, I would expect 6600 XT would drop down in price soon. Fingercross 5.19 and 6.0 would support Navi 23 correctly
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: tle on November 08, 2022, 09:28:37 am: 6600 XT is confirmed working fine with kernel 6.1.0

See: https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,429.0.html
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: tle on November 08, 2022, 09:37:25 am: Good news folks, 6900 XT runs fine under 6.1.0rc3!

If you know anyone in Victoria, Australia that might be able to lend me 6800 or 6700 card for few hours, please reach out to me via private message
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: rjzak on November 11, 2022, 09:03:51 am: Quote from: tle on November 08, 2022, 09:37:25 am
Good news folks, 6900 XT runs fine under 6.1.0rc3!

If you know anyone in Victoria, Australia that might be able to lend me 6800 or 6700 card for few hours, please reach out to me via private message

Working, and with 64k pages too if I remember correctly. This is good news. Does that mean other AMD GPUs also work under 64k pages?
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: MPC7500 on November 11, 2022, 09:13:20 am: Yes. Bug is fixed since 5.10.101.
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: MPC7500 on December 03, 2022, 09:01:08 am: It seems amdgpu is broken again on Navi (https://twitter.com/octaforge/status/1598428172684787713).
Title: Re: AMD RX 6900 XT from Sapphire NITRO
Post by: MauryG5 on December 03, 2022, 03:12:17 pm: I just read Q66's post on Navi10 and I read that now he is seeing that 6.1.rc7 has problems with RX 5700 and he says they have problems like there have been for version 5.19 but I replied that I personally have never had any problems with Kernel versions 5.18 and 5.19 with RX5700... I don't understand what you mean with that sentence about the Navi10 problem with Kernel 5.19...