That's great to hear! Would you mind resending that message with reply-all so that it includes hipcc@packages.debian.org? That will ensure it gets archived on the public mailing list. There's useful information in there that other folks using Blender may be interested in.
- CoryOn March 30, 2023 7:49:29 a.m. MDT, Pio064 <pio064@protonmail.com> wrote:Thank you, it worked! I've wanted to get this to work for a long time and couldn't find any information on how to do it. Now I'm surprised how easy it is!It worked for me in Blender versions 3.4.1 and 3.5 from blender.org. It seems that I only needed libamdhip64-dev and libamd-comgr-dev. Without that last package when enabling GPU compute, Blender would crash with this error:KFD does not support xnack mode query.ROCr must assume xnack is disabled.Writing: /tmp/blender.crash.txtSegmentation faultI was surprised to find that Debian's Blender 3.4.1 also worked! I saw this message in terminal and after that I could render on the GPU:Compiling HIP kernel ...hipcc -Wno-parentheses-equality -Wno-unused-value --hipcc-func-supp -O3 -ffast-math --amdgpu-target=gfx1031 -I /usr/share/blender/scripts/addons/cycles/source --genco /usr/share/blender/scripts/addons/cycles/source/kernel/device/hip/kernel.cpp -o "/home/user/.cache/cycles/kernels/cycles_kernel_gfx1031_77944C4F96BD4E71230409B7F1F7F920"Kernel compilation finished in 104.79s.Build without OpenImageDenoiserI had hipcc still installed at that time though. I also had to disable the denoiser in render settings (only in Debian's version).Thank you for help! I'm glad that I can finally use my GPU in Blender :).------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, March 30th, 2023 at 5:48 AM, Cordell Bloor <cgmb@slerp.xyz> wrote:
Hi,
On 3/29/23 17:40, Pio064 wrote:
Hi, thank you for your work on packaging AMD HIP for Debian!You are welcome.
Is it possible to install HIP on Debian Bookworm in order to use it in Blender?Yes. However, the version of Blender packaged for Bookworm does not yet contain support for HIP [1]. You'd have to use a copy of Blender downloaded from blender.org. It seems that Blender 3.5 released today [2]. I just tried rendering my default cube with Cycles on an RX 5700 XT on Debian Unstable and it works for me.
If so, could you tell me which packages I would need to install?I believe it just requires libamdhip64-dev. I don't have a system set up to test with the Bookworm version, but there are a few bugfixes missing from that version that are found on Unstable. Hopefully the bugfixes will migrate to Bookworm soon. In the meantime, you may need to also manually install libamd-comgr-dev and libhsa-runtime-dev.
You can check that Blender detects your HIP install properly by going to Edit -> Preferences -> System -> Cycles Render Devices -> HIP. If there is a checkbox for your GPU, then it is detecting HIP correctly.
I think installing "hipcc" might not be enough and I couldn't find any information about this online.hipcc includes a number of things that are not needed, in addition to everything that is. It would be more than enough.
Sincerely,
Cory Bloor
[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1021646
[2]: https://www.blender.org/download/release/Blender3.5/blender-3.5.0-linux-x64.tar.xz/