Bug#978049: vulkan-tools: Vulkan not usable by default on AMD hardware
Package: vulkan-tools
Version: 1.2.154.0+dfsg1-1
Severity: important
# vulkaninfo
ERROR at /build/vulkan-tools-tihVv9/vulkan-
tools-1.2.154.0+dfsg1/vulkaninfo/vulkaninfo.h:248:vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties
failed with ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
a google search finds this page --
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=254015
-- which suggests that the root problem is that the wrong kernel module is
getting loaded.
and so it turns out to be:
# lspci -k
...
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
Tahiti PRO [Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280]
Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Tahiti PRO [Radeon HD
7950/8950 OEM / R9 280]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu
it doesn't seem reasonable that end users should have to figure this out, and
edit
the mkinitramfs config files, or whatever, to get this to work. can't it be
arranged
that the amdgpu kernel module is preferred over the radeon kernel module,
whenever
AMD GCN video hardware is detected?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages vulkan-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-5
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-1
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-1
ii libvulkan1 1.2.154.1-1
ii libwayland-client0 1.18.0-2~exp1.1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.12-1
ii libxcb1 1.14-2
vulkan-tools recommends no packages.
vulkan-tools suggests no packages.
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