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On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:21:48 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 16:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > AMD have published Linux drivers on their website, but in RPM and .deb |
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> > formats. I tried one anyway, but installation stops immediately with |
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> > 'unsupported OS'. Not surprising, of course, but is there any way of |
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> > porting an archive full of .debs so that it can be used in Gentoo? |
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> Lots of portage ebuild files make use of vendor-published .deb / .rpm |
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> files, manipulating them to install files in the Gentoo-style way. |
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> One of the more straightforward and yet complete examples I've seen is |
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> the Microsoft Teams (net-im/teams) package[1] but there are certainly |
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> others to use for examples. |
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> If you wanted, you could try making an ebuild for the deb files from |
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> AMD, whether only for your own needs or to possibly share with others. |
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That's a huge undertaking in this case. Beyond me, I deem. |
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> 1:https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-im/teams/teams-1.4.00.1 |
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> 3653-r1.ebuild |
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The thing is, there's already an ebuild for dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl, but |
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since I upgraded the display card the resulting code hasn't worked. BOINC |
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reports 'No usable GPUs found' and sources on the Web say that neither of the |
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two drivers works. Impasse. |
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Am I going to have to replace the old display card and write off the expense? |
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Looks like it. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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