Why are my GPU WUs failing?

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anonymous defaulteam
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Re: Why are my GPU WUs failing?

Post by anonymous defaulteam »

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman wrote:To search for already installed packages:

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$ pacman -Qs string1 string2 ...
try strings like icd, opencl, or mesa

does something like:
opencl-mesa
show up, or is cacyos repos packages different?

Hey, Linux Mint is a perfectly cromulent distro, or do just Arch Linux (to get some RingTFM experience) for a couple of years before getting into new Arch based distros. Better to learn to crawl before jumping in the deep end. :)
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Re: Why are my GPU WUs failing?

Post by Swooferfan »

I only found mesa and mesa-utils.
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Re: Why are my GPU WUs failing?

Post by Swooferfan »

I can only find these two: mesa (2:25.3.6-2) mesa-utils (9.0.0-7.1)
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Re: Why are my GPU WUs failing?

Post by Swooferfan »

I could only find mesa (2:25.3.6-2) mesa-utils (9.0.0-7.1).
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Re: Why are my GPU WUs failing?

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Yes, I can find opencl-mesa.
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Re: Why are my GPU WUs failing?

Post by muziqaz »

Swooferfan wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 3:40 am Yes, I can find opencl-mesa.
Key "word" is ICD, next to Mesa.
Check if Mesa-utils bundle it. Honestly I have no clue why every single distro thinks their way of organising repositories is best. It is stupid and kills any chance of Linux becoming mainstream.
If those Devs followed normal guidelines, you would be done troubleshooting this issue by now.
That is why it is imperative that new Linux users do not go for niche Arch distros on their first Linux rodeo.
There should be a frikkin law for new users to start with kubuntu or something, that way things look similar to windows, and their repository arrangements are not some twisted maze of "I know better, good luck figuring that thing out" :D


By the way FAH-client recognises your GPU, tells me that Mesa is taking over as primary API. It happened to me once, I sorted it out by removing mesa-icd only. You cannot remove Mesa altogether, because stupid AMD has not figure out the way to make their latest GPUs work in Linux without Mesa, which is moronic, since AMD HAS their own API for that capable of doing that for older GPUs.
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