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Hi,

after some struggling, I finally got my setup running with GPU. This setup includes:

• A PC running Debian Linux Version 10 (Codename buster)
• A AMD Radeon RX 550 Graphics card

I wanted to use Open Source drivers, so I installed rocm, as explained in https://rocm-documentation.readthedocs. ... Guide.html. I did not try proprietary AMD drivers, so I can say nothing about them. I checked it was working by running "clinfo".

I also installed FAH as explained in https://foldingathome.org/support/faq/i ... des/linux/.

Initially FAH worked, but did not use the GPU. So I did the following:

• Add the user fahclient to the group render by running "adduser fahclient render" on a console as root. It is required to access the GPU, but it is not done by default (FAH 7.5.1).
• restart the fahclient outside of systemd

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  systemctl stop FAHClient.service
  /etc/init.d/FAHClient start

  Surprisingly, this made a difference. I do not know why.
• configure the GPU slot with opencl-index=0
• and most important: wait for the latest rocm update! (rocm-dkms version 3.3.0-19, early April 2020)

Then I just needed to verify that FAHControl "System Info" detects the OpenCL Device and finally run folding.

I hope this will help some of you in getting started.

(see also viewtopic.php?f=83&t=32226)

Awesome stuff, thank you for your effort. Hopefully it will be helpful for other using Linux and AMD GPUs

Thread pinned, unless some one complains that it didn't work for him ...

Nice! I'm still battling freezes that I think are attributable to the current proprietary AMD OpenCL driver, as they only happen on Linux not Windows (which runs different versions). Just a question: Did you install rocm-dkms or did you opt to use upstream kernel drivers (as outlined in the install guide you linked)?

Rainmaker wrote:Nice! I'm still battling freezes that I think are attributable to the current proprietary AMD OpenCL driver, as they only happen on Linux not Windows (which runs different versions). Just a question: Did you install rocm-dkms or did you opt to use upstream kernel drivers (as outlined in the install guide you linked)?

Right, I was not precise. I followed the Ubuntu instructions with rocm-dkms, not the Upstream Kernel Drivers.

Hopefully more success stories follow. I have been using the proprietary drivers without issue, but they are so painful to get installed and working.

I did the same. But instead I edited the init file so that it uses root user instead. viewtopic.php?f=106&t=34231