Radeon RX 5700XT

WhiteWolf

Hi,
anyone can tell me when will there be some support for rx5700xt? Is it going to land in Solus 5? Or there is going on already some work and I can run Solus with it? As I', trying to install Solus 4 and it fails, from the info I found all over net looks like it's an issue with starting gui, "startx" cmd fails for me and I'm getting some errors when I tried to boot from live usb.

arkhenius

WhiteWolf You don't need to wait for a "version" (like Solus 5) since Solus is a rolling release and version number do not mean much. You will be able to use the new Radeon cards when the new kernel is released, around September as Neumie mentioned. I assume the new mesa drivers would also help with optimization and Vulkan support, which should be around September too as far as I know. Stuff like this usually take about a week to arrive in Solus repos, so you won't have to wait too long after they are released.

dbarron

Well, simply put it's not a Solus deficiency. If your card is supported by the linux kernel and the X-Windows system, it'll work. As to when, I suppose you need to find out if support for the card is underway (I would expect yes, but I don't know). ATI is usually supported well (it's what I run).

Neumie

The 5700 and XT will need kernel 5.3 or newer to work. 5.3 is not due to be released until September as far as I know. There are release candidates out now but i'm not sure which distros have them available.

WhiteWolf

arkhenius
Great, thanks for info 🙂

right now I was looking for some good linux distro and I don't like Ubuntu but it got some support atm, right now I managed to start Fedora 30 with 5700XT (at least it allowed me to start gnome), other distros failed like Manjaro etc.
Still Solus is the sweet spot for my liking. Wait I will then 🙂

Staudey

arkhenius I assume the new mesa drivers would also help with optimization and Vulkan support, which should be around September too as far as I know. Stuff like this usually take about a week to arrive in Solus repos, so you won't have to wait too long after they are released.

I wouldn't count on big updates like mesa or kernel to land in "about a week". Things like that need testing. In the case of kernel updates I think Bryan also usually waits for the x.x.1 version, which takes care of the bugs noticed after initial release.

WhiteWolf

One more question, when was last time solus iso updated the one on the solus webpage? Is there any dev iso build atm? Are there any daily builds?

JoshStrobl

WhiteWolf

One more question, when was last time solus iso updated the one on the solus webpage?

March 2019. If there was a new one, we'd have a new release. If we had a new release, we'd have an announcement about it.

Is there any dev iso build atm?

We sometimes will generate ISOs to validate certain configurations and stack upgrades against unstable, but none which are freely available.

Are there any daily builds?

No and that'd be overkill.

WhiteWolf

JoshStrobl Thanks for quick answers.

P.S. I found a workaround for ppl who wanna install Solus and have 5700/5700XT atm. Just use Gnome version, oddly live USB started and I was able to install it, after install I updated system and installed budgie env and it works!!! 😃
There is the flickering issue when I use youtube etc. but it's on all Linux distros which I tried (Fedora,Ubuntu) and I guess we need to wait for a fix.

polomi

I'm planning on buying an RX 5700. Once the kernel 5.3 is released, will I be able to install Solus on that PC from the current Budgie iso and then somehow eopkg up, from a tty maybe? Or will it not even install at all and I will have to wait for a new iso?

Justin

polomi Send me an RX5700 and I'll test it out. 😁

polomi

Justin Nice try. 😁 On the other hand, if you really need someone to make tests, I'll be happy to help as soon as I build the PC. I was planning on waiting for confirmation that Solus Budgie can be installed before buying it, confirmation that I'm unlikely to get before October I guess. But if it can help to get it earlier for testing I'm up for it. Let me know.

WhiteWolf

polomi atm Budgie iso is bugged and you won't install from it. As I mentioned I did install it from Gnome iso and then added Budgie DE. ASRock 5700xt owner here.

polomi

WhiteWolf Ah thanks I skipped this. Can you transition from Gnome to Budgie cleanly or does it end up with a mess of installed Gnome dependencies? Anyway, that's satisfying enough, at least temporarily!

Justin

polomi Budgie and GNOME have fairly close ties as they're both GTK and both editions use a very similar set of applications. So you shouldn't have any issues having both installed when it comes to it.

polomi

Linux 5.3 is out. I still don't have the RX 5700, but it should be available soon according to the retailers. Is there any chance of a 4.1 iso once the kernel is upgraded in Solus, to ease installation for people who bought into AMD Navi?

JoshStrobl

polomi Is there any chance of a 4.1 iso once the kernel is upgraded in Solus

We will be releasing a new version of Solus when our requirements for the release are satisfied, ETAs are not given. You are welcome to check our development tracker as well as search for previous posts if you are curious what those are. We are aware that for a very small subset of users with brand new hardware, installation may currently prove problematic. This is always going to be the case no matter what operating system you use. You're always going to run into instances that, until a new release is made of that operating system and assuming available hardware support in the kernel + drivers, new hardware will be problematic during installation. Whether that's AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA hardware.

polomi

JoshStrobl We will be releasing a new version of Solus when our requirements for the release are satisfied, ETAs are not given. You are welcome to check our development tracker as well as search for previous posts if you are curious what those are.

My understanding is that the answer is no then, or at least that any release would be coincidental with other goals, and not aimed specifically at this. Which is fine, not complaining. Thanks for the detailed answer though!

JoshStrobl We are aware that for a very small subset of users with brand new hardware, installation may currently prove problematic. This is always going to be the case no matter what operating system you use. You're always going to run into instances that, until a new release is made of that operating system and assuming available hardware support in the kernel + drivers, new hardware will be problematic during installation. Whether that's AMD, Intel, or NVIDIA hardware.

Yes, for sure. I wasn't under any other impression. 🙂

I'll still be happy to make any tests if it can help the Solus team in some way. Feel free to ask whatever you think might be helpful. I should have the GPU in a couple of weeks.

DataDrake

polomi I can guarantee that 5.3.1 or newer will be on the next ISO and will bring support for Navi dGPUs. When that will happen, I cannot say.

polomi

DataDrake Well I certainly wouldn't expect ISOs with 5.2.x kernels anymore at this point! 😁 In the meantime, I will use the trick mentioned above (i.e. install Solus using the Gnome edition, and then install Budgie on top).