SOLUTION:

I was missing this package sudo dnf install rocm-hip-devel as per instructions here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/HC

Hi, I’m trying to get GPU acceleration on AMD to work in Blender 4.1 but I can’t seem to be able to. From what I’ve seen it should be working with ROCm just fine but I had no luck with it.

I’m using Fedora 40 GNOME with Wayland and my GPU is RX 6800 XT.

System is up to date. I’ve also installed all these packages:

sudo dnf install rocminfo

sudo dnf install rocm-opencl

sudo dnf install rocm-clinfo

sudo dnf install rocm-hip

and restarted system after.

rocminfo gives me this

rocm-clinfo gives me this

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  • Presi300English
    6•6 months ago

    Pro tip: NEVER try setting up ROCM/hip directly on hardware. AMD provides a docker container with it already setup.

    • @WereCatOP
      2•6 months ago

      Why? Also I didn’t know about any docker container and never seen any mention of it when looking up solutions.

      • Presi300English
        4•6 months ago

        Because it’s a pain and can brick your graphics driver…

        • @WereCatOP
          1•6 months ago

          Does docker require virtualisation to be enabled?

            • @WereCatOP
              1•6 months ago

              Thanks, I’ll look more into it once I get more time but from a glance this seems a bit too convoluted for my needs.

              • @[email protected]
                2•6 months ago

                No this is the safe approach. Installing a 3rd party devel package may likely break your system

                • @WereCatOP
                  1•6 months ago

                  If it breaks, it breaks… But I’ll give it a try on my laptop with PopOS

                  • @[email protected]
                    2•6 months ago

                    PopOS needs completely different packages though.

                    They base on Ubuntu LTS but ship newer mesa, kernel and maybe more.

                    Not sure if every component will be newer, so I would also expect conflicts.

                    Using an upstream provided container really sounds like a good solution.