I picked up an AMD 9060 XT the other week and tested it out by dual-booting Bazzite. Helldivers 2, TRYP FPV Drone Racing, Mud Runner all ran as expected, it was wicked.

“Nice,” I thought, “This works great, time to boot back into Fedora.”

And… not so nice? Apparently Fedora doesn’t have hardware acceleration when using AMD GPUs and a bunch of the apps I normally use are whinging about it. It was fine with the older NVIDIA card I had been using but I wasn’t getting the performance benefits of gamescope.

Dabbled in the dark arts of trying to swap mesa drivers to the freeworld one and ended up nuking my login screen so probably going to have to roll back. I thought Bazzite was based on Silver Blue so kinda confused, I guess they’ve done some AMD-friendly tweaks?

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Fedora 100% has acceleration, you just seen to be missing something. Starting from a clean distro isn’t a good indication of where your issue is with your existing install.

    Did you switch from an Nvidia card by chance? Did you check if you might have blacklisted AMD drivers?

    Reboot and check dmesg for any obvious errors, and lsmod | grep amd to see what, if anything, is loaded. If nothing is loaded, I almost guarantee you have something blacklisted.