On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 11:28:20PM +0100, tech lists wrote: > On 08/10/2018 19:55, Johannes Dieterich wrote: > >> 1. is this the right/fastest/best driver for this card? > > Yes, amdgpu kernel module and amdgpu DDX > > aha I didn't know about the xf86-video-amdgpu DDX requirement. OK, have > installed that :D > > >> 3. I'd like this card to crunch with boinc. What determines if this is > >> possible? is it freebsd, boinc, the card driver, the project boinc is on > >> or something else? > > Depends what the boinc client uses. OpenCL - you will need graphics/clover > > which is not officially supported by AMD but may work. ROCm/HIP - won't > > work. > ok thnks for that. I saw no option for boinc_client to use OpenCL when > building the port, so I installed opencl first, then linux-c7 (was c6 > before) then built boinc-client ensuring the option to take linux work > was selected. The boinc project is World Community Grid. > > I'm not able to immediately test as it's a friend's computer. He says it > "displays great" but I'm looking for a way to quantify that. Hence the > question how to test the cards capabilities.
Look in the BOINC logs. There should be a co-processor section (I think) if the GPU is found, else a log of "No usable GPUs found" Gary _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
