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Seacat17
Seacat17

Reputation: 1

Why OpenCL refuses to work on compatible hardware under Ubuntu 20.04?

Well, I need a help from someone who has some experience using AMD GPUs on Linux.

I have AMD ATI Radeon HD 8550M. It supports OpenCL 1.2. And AMD ATI Radeon R3 Graphics which supports OpenCL 2.0. I have latest Mesa driver installed.

And here's a question: why clinfo displays "0"?

Not to mention that I can't use it in any software.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 869

Answers (2)

zizzler
zizzler

Reputation: 365

For most people and most practical purposes, AMD GPUs are not supported on Linux. There is no "official" (by which I mean GPL2 or GPL3) driver, and AFAIK never has been, for AMD. If you happen to be running one of the few versions of Ubuntu that the proprietary drivers support, and if you plan to never upgrade your Ubuntu version, and if you accept the risk of running proprietary software on your computer, then you can use the proprietary driver.

Upvotes: 0

ProjectPhysX
ProjectPhysX

Reputation: 5736

The old opencl-mesa runtime seems broken. Try opencl-amd or the latest official drivers instead.

Upvotes: 2

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