amdgpu pro card no longer folding

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nada391
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amdgpu pro card no longer folding

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Hello ,

have since short a pro card W6400 which according to

AMD website has limited support for Ubuntu et.al

it functioned for few weeks but now it does no longer function with FAH (the newer kernel upgrade 6.17.29 fails to build the amdgpu portion > DKMS issue)

if installing just the portion that has been shared in the apposite section here on forum
viewtopic.php?t=43222

sudo apt install rocm-opencl-runtime (select 6.4.3) or (select 7.0.1?)
sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev

then the card would be supported, however the gpu section would always crash or stall at 0%.
and re-begin to stall anew.

is there a new routine available or should i just hope that the DKMS issue get solved for the AMDGPU PRO driver?

the concerned OS is Ubuntu 24.04. LTS (latest updates applied).

https://www.amd.com/en/support/download ... w6400.html

thank you very much for help and insight.
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Re: amdgpu pro card no longer folding

Post by muziqaz »

Please post the examples of the crash and on which projects. Also screenshot of the fahclient system info section would help.
I still have RDNA2 GPU folding fine on bleeding edge kernel with latest rocm, so something else is happening down your end.

DKMS should not engage at all, unless you tried downloading and installing the amdgpu-install driver from AMD website. This is not needed, and most of the time brings pain to the user with new kernels
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Re: amdgpu pro card no longer folding

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getting such error as

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17:13:32:I1:WU2:Reading tar file integrator.xml
17:13:32:I1:WU2:Reading tar file state.xml
17:13:33:I1:WU2:Reading tar file system.xml
17:13:33:I1:WU2:Digital signatures verified
17:13:33:I1:WU2:Folding@home GPU Core27 Folding@home Core
17:13:33:I1:WU2:Version 8.2.1
17:13:33:I1:WU2: Checkpoint write interval: 100000 steps (4%) [25 total]
17:13:33:I1:WU2: JSON viewer frame write interval: 25000 steps (1%) [100 total]
17:13:33:I1:WU2: XTC frame write interval: 25000 steps (1%) [100 total]
17:13:33:I1:WU2: TRR frame write interval: disabled
17:13:33:I1:WU2: Global context and integrator variables write interval: disabled
17:13:33:I1:WU2:There are 3 platforms available.
17:13:33:I1:WU2:Platform 0: Reference
17:13:33:I1:WU2:Platform 1: CPU
17:13:33:I1:WU2:Platform 2: OpenCL
17:13:33:I1:WU2: opencl-device 0 specified
17:13:36:I1:WU2:Attempting to create OpenCL context:
17:13:36:I1:WU2: Configuring platform OpenCL
17:13:43:I1:WU2:ERROR:Discrepancy: Forces are blowing up! 4881 0
17:13:43:I1:WU2:Saving result file ../logfile_01.txt
17:13:43:I1:WU2:Saving result file science.log
17:13:43:I1:WU2:Saving result file state.xml
17:13:44:I1:WU2:Folding@home Core Shutdown: BAD_WORK_UNIT
17:13:45:E :WU2:Core returned BAD_WORK_UNIT (114)
17:13:46:I1:WU2:Uploading WU results
17:13:47:I1:WU2:UPLOAD 13% 2.06MiB of 15.65MiB
17:13:48:I1:WU2:UPLOAD 23% 3.66MiB of 15.65MiB
17:13:50:I1:WU2:UPLOAD 34% 5.32MiB of 15.65MiB
17:13:51:I1:WU2:UPLOAD 41% 6.38MiB of 15.65MiB
17:13:53:I1:WU2:UPLOAD 48% 7.56MiB of 15.65MiB
17:13:54:I1:WU2:UPLOAD 52% 8.10MiB of 15.65MiB
after fresh install of ubuntu 24.04 lts with amdgpu-install 7.1.0

and clinfo report success

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Number of platforms                               1
  Platform Name                                   AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
  Platform Vendor                                 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
  Platform Version                                OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3581.0)
  Platform Profile                                FULL_PROFILE
  Platform Extensions                             cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback 
  Platform Extensions function suffix             AMD
  Platform Host timer resolution                  1ns

  Platform Name                                   AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Number of devices                                 1
  Device Name                                     gfx1034
  Device Vendor                                   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
  Device Vendor ID                                0x1002
  Device Version                                  OpenCL 2.0 
  Driver Version                                  3581.0 (HSA1.1,LC)
  Device OpenCL C Version                         OpenCL C 2.0 
  Device Type                                     GPU
  Device Board Name (AMD)                         AMD Radeon PRO W6400
  Device PCI-e ID (AMD)                           0x7422
  Device Topology (AMD)                           PCI-E, 0000:2b:00.0
  Device Profile                                  FULL_PROFILE
  Device Available                                Yes
  Compiler Available                              Yes
  Linker Available                                Yes
  Max compute units                               6
  SIMD per compute unit (AMD)                     4
  SIMD width (AMD)                                32
  SIMD instruction width (AMD)                    1
  Max clock frequency                             2320MHz
  Graphics IP (AMD)                               10.3
  Device Partition                                (core)
    Max number of sub-devices                     6
    Supported partition types                     None
    Supported affinity domains                    (n/a)
  Max work item dimensions                        3
  Max work item sizes                             1024x1024x1024
  Max work group size                             256
  Preferred work group size (AMD)                 256
  Max work group size (AMD)                       1024
  Preferred work group size multiple (kernel)     32
  Wavefront width (AMD)                           32
  Preferred / native vector sizes                 
    char                                                 4 / 4       
    short                                                2 / 2       
    int                                                  1 / 1       
    long                                                 1 / 1       
    half                                                 1 / 1        (cl_khr_fp16)
    float                                                1 / 1       
    double                                               1 / 1        (cl_khr_fp64)
  Half-precision Floating-point support           (cl_khr_fp16)
    Denormals                                     Yes
    Infinity and NANs                             Yes
    Round to nearest                              Yes
    Round to zero                                 Yes
    Round to infinity                             Yes
    IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add               Yes
    Support is emulated in software               No
  Single-precision Floating-point support         (core)
    Denormals                                     Yes
    Infinity and NANs                             Yes
    Round to nearest                              Yes
    Round to zero                                 Yes
    Round to infinity                             Yes
    IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add               Yes
    Support is emulated in software               No
    Correctly-rounded divide and sqrt operations  Yes
  Double-precision Floating-point support         (cl_khr_fp64)
    Denormals                                     Yes
    Infinity and NANs                             Yes
    Round to nearest                              Yes
    Round to zero                                 Yes
    Round to infinity                             Yes
    IEEE754-2008 fused multiply-add               Yes
    Support is emulated in software               No
  Address bits                                    64, Little-Endian
  Global memory size                              4278190080 (3.984GiB)
  Global free memory (AMD)                        4001792 (3.816GiB) 4001792 (3.816GiB)
  Global memory channels (AMD)                    2
  Global memory banks per channel (AMD)           4
  Global memory bank width (AMD)                  256 bytes
  Error Correction support                        No
  Max memory allocation                           3636461568 (3.387GiB)
  Unified memory for Host and Device              No
  Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) capabilities        (core)
    Coarse-grained buffer sharing                 Yes
    Fine-grained buffer sharing                   Yes
    Fine-grained system sharing                   No
    Atomics                                       No
  Minimum alignment for any data type             128 bytes
  Alignment of base address                       2048 bits (256 bytes)
  Preferred alignment for atomics                 
    SVM                                           0 bytes
    Global                                        0 bytes
    Local                                         0 bytes
  Max size for global variable                    3636461568 (3.387GiB)
  Preferred total size of global vars             4278190080 (3.984GiB)
  Global Memory cache type                        Read/Write
  Global Memory cache size                        16384 (16KiB)
  Global Memory cache line size                   128 bytes
  Image support                                   Yes
    Max number of samplers per kernel             16
    Max size for 1D images from buffer            134217728 pixels
    Max 1D or 2D image array size                 8192 images
    Base address alignment for 2D image buffers   256 bytes
    Pitch alignment for 2D image buffers          256 pixels
    Max 2D image size                             16384x16384 pixels
    Max 3D image size                             16384x16384x8192 pixels
    Max number of read image args                 128
    Max number of write image args                8
    Max number of read/write image args           64
  Max number of pipe args                         16
  Max active pipe reservations                    16
  Max pipe packet size                            3636461568 (3.387GiB)
  Local memory type                               Local
  Local memory size                               65536 (64KiB)
  Local memory size per CU (AMD)                  65536 (64KiB)
  Local memory banks (AMD)                        32
  Max number of constant args                     8
  Max constant buffer size                        3636461568 (3.387GiB)
  Preferred constant buffer size (AMD)            16384 (16KiB)
  Max size of kernel argument                     1024
  Queue properties (on host)                      
    Out-of-order execution                        No
    Profiling                                     Yes
  Queue properties (on device)                    
    Out-of-order execution                        Yes
    Profiling                                     Yes
    Preferred size                                262144 (256KiB)
    Max size                                      8388608 (8MiB)
  Max queues on device                            1
  Max events on device                            1024
  Prefer user sync for interop                    Yes
  Number of P2P devices (AMD)                     0
  Profiling timer resolution                      1ns
  Profiling timer offset since Epoch (AMD)        0ns (Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970)
  Execution capabilities                          
    Run OpenCL kernels                            Yes
    Run native kernels                            No
    Thread trace supported (AMD)                  No
    Number of async queues (AMD)                  8
    Max real-time compute queues (AMD)            8
    Max real-time compute units (AMD)             6
  printf() buffer size                            4194304 (4MiB)
  Built-in kernels                                (n/a)
  Device Extensions                               cl_khr_fp64 cl_khr_global_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_global_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_base_atomics cl_khr_local_int32_extended_atomics cl_khr_int64_base_atomics cl_khr_int64_extended_atomics cl_khr_3d_image_writes cl_khr_byte_addressable_store cl_khr_fp16 cl_khr_gl_sharing cl_amd_device_attribute_query cl_amd_media_ops cl_amd_media_ops2 cl_khr_image2d_from_buffer cl_khr_subgroups cl_khr_depth_images cl_amd_copy_buffer_p2p cl_amd_assembly_program 

NULL platform behavior
  clGetPlatformInfo(NULL, CL_PLATFORM_NAME, ...)  AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
  clGetDeviceIDs(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL, ...)   Success [AMD]
  clCreateContext(NULL, ...) [default]            Success [AMD]
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_DEFAULT)  Success (1)
    Platform Name                                 AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
    Device Name                                   gfx1034
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU)  No devices found in platform
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU)  Success (1)
    Platform Name                                 AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
    Device Name                                   gfx1034
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ACCELERATOR)  No devices found in platform
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_CUSTOM)  No devices found in platform
  clCreateContextFromType(NULL, CL_DEVICE_TYPE_ALL)  Success (1)
    Platform Name                                 AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
    Device Name                                   gfx1034

ICD loader properties
  ICD loader Name                                 OpenCL ICD Loader
  ICD loader Vendor                               OCL Icd free software
  ICD loader Version                              2.3.2
  ICD loader Profile                              OpenCL 3.0

i had to install amdgpu-install 7.1 to get it to function with the latest 24.04.4 lts kernel, however on amd homepage the graphics card results supported only for 24.04.3 lts
Radeon™ Pro Software for Enterprise on Ubuntu 24.04.3 Installer
Revision Number

25.Q3
File Size
Release Date

2025-07-17
https://www.amd.com/en/support/download ... w6400.html
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Re: amdgpu pro card no longer folding

Post by muziqaz »

Stop downloading and installing amdgpu. All you need for folding is: viewtopic.php?t=43222. Nothing else. The driver for the card comes with the kernel already
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Re: amdgpu pro card no longer folding

Post by nada391 »

alright, will rmember ur advice,
however, last time i tried, wiht uninstalling amdgpu completely,
and installing 6.4.3 according to the guide , you linked, it failed nontheless (sorry to report)
also the updated guide with 7.0.1 did not do the trick.

maybe there is something with the card not properly supported (it seem all talk about rocm nowadays and the card certainly not in the list)

thanks!
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Re: amdgpu pro card no longer folding

Post by nada391 »

when using the guid you proposed and inserting version number 6.4.3 the card is properly recognized in fah-webview, but listed as not supported?

under clinfo the card is listed as function?

https://ibb.co/C5TXjzbn
https://ibb.co/p6d8MpHy
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