Thanks, I'll look into it. I appreciate it.

Hi @bassmadrigal,

Thanks for making available your script for amdgpu-pro. I have tried this successfully with both Slackware 14.2 as well as current. While OpenGL and the output from clinfo seem to deliver the goods as expected, when I actually launch an application that needs OpenCL(darktable or luxmark-3.1) I either get some error message that the OpenCL commandQueue can not be created or an outright segfault. I wonder whether this is because I messed up the installation(don't think that is likely) or because OpenCL on amdgpu-pro for Southern Island cards is still incomplete/immature. I have raked the internet for any user experience of ocl on HD7970 cards using amdgpu-pro but found precious little...

Thanks for any info!

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Can you post your specific errors? My cards are still unsupported by AMDGPU, so I am unable to do local testing. There were a ton of small hacks that needed to be made with other portions of the driver and the error messages were key in finding that.

Also, you were able to get this to work in -current? I was under the impression that Xorg is too new in -current and that AMDGPU-Pro doesn't support Xorg 1.19.

@bassmadrigal

Your take works for me under Slackware 14.2 with no issue!

In my country is a saying: when your worst enemy say you "Good job!", most likely you are doing it really well!

And, out of our past harsh divergences, I would like to say you, for real: Good Job!

So, go figure!

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Is there any reason still to use amdgpu-pro driver unless you use an special program that needs compat profiles?

For example, in my particular hardware the open-source stack from Slackware 14.2 reacts very naughty, read: getting Random Freeze All The Way (TM).

Specially when I love to not happen, as you suspect, i.e. when I have already written a long document, and so on...

I never considered us enemies... just people who have different opinions on where Pat should take Slackware. And while I may not agree with your proposed directions, it is still your right to suggest them, just as it is my right to sometimes disagree with them

But I do appreciate the compliment. It means a lot

Hi, I have installed amdgpu-pro on the current slackware 14.2 x86_64 with some xorg downgrade (1.18.3) to fit the driver requirement
I also upgrade glew/glu/glut and mesa to the git version

the driver seem to work, but many information in xorg.conf is not used
like disable Xinemera to have each display on a different screen (to separate xfce workspace)
and I have some issue with opengl application

glxgears: 60fps in the consol, but only 4fps is displayed
glxgears_fbconfig, glxswapcontrol: display glxgears without lag
glthreads, glxheads: work fine

glxinfo and glxgears_pixmap:
but glewinfo work:if you have an idea on what going wrong ?
maybe I need to downgrade pixman ?
thank you

Running amdgpu-pro on -current (which I assume is what you mean instead of 14.2, since there is no need to downgrade X in 14.2 -- 14.2 and -current are two vastly different Slackware versions) is not supported. I've never tested it and I don't know what concoction of software might be needed for it to work properly.

As far as I know, Xinerama is an Nvidia option only when using their proprietary driver. I don't believe it is a valid option for amdgpu (either the open source or -pro drivers).