Radeon 560 Not Using Hardware Acceleration

I absolutely love Zorin's GUI, but am totally frustrated trying to get my GPU to properly work. I have an ATI Radeon 560, which is a decent card. However, I HAVE to use nomodeset in grub to get in. I have tried amdgpu but it doesn't seem to do anything. As a result, I'm only getting software rendering and none of the hardware acceleration that comes with the card. My computer is usable, but video is choppy, and even just web scrolling is not smooth. I'm going out of my mind, here.

Please help!

Thanks!


Hello,

A long short would be that you're logged into Wayland. Try log into Xorg.

Else;

sudo apt install inxi
inxi -Ga

Please post output. It should give us a list of your card like this;

Yeah, it's not using your card. It says you logged into Wayland, try log into Xorg. You do that by logging out and click your username, a cog should appear here you can choose Xorg/X11. Try test it under it.

Heh...get an "Oh no something went wrong" screen... :frowning:

Then back to Wayland. You mention you tried to install the driver (which is not needed as the driver is now open source), which can cause the oh no screen.

When you get back on Wayland, uninstall the downloaded driver. Then we'll start on scratch.

EDIT: is you system up to date?

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Ok, uninstalled amdgpu and it worked. On xorg now

Is the choppy-ness gone?

It does seem a little better.

Welcome to the Forum!

Is Fractional Scaling active?

You can try to disable hardware Acceleartion in your browser for better performance. I'm not sure if the 560 series is a low/mid/high end card.

No, I've tried both with and without it.

This output shows you are in fallback to llvmpipe.

Had you installed the AMDGPU drivers previously? What method did you use?

I have. I've tried multiple methods. After I get AMDGPU installed I'm not sure how to find which driver for my Radeon 560.

I am sorry, I was not very clear.
I asked if you installed it and which method you used in order to try to trace backward what the issue is.

Generally, GnuLinux includes AMD drivers with the Kernel - you should not have to install AMD drivers, at all.
But.
AMD is a funny animal where Proprietary is concerned.
So, let's say you visit the Official AMD Website and download AMDGPU and then install that; it may actually not work.

If installing the package on GnuLinux, I usually recommend:

sudo apt install amdgpu amdgpu-dkms

In order to run this command (This applies to Nvidia, as well), the user must first uninstall/Remove all previous driver installs.

I have seen this comment in a lot of places--that no drivers should need to be installed. Still, I'm positive the GPU isn't being used to its potential and the CPU is doing the heavy lifting. I am at a loss.

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I suspect you are correct about your card not meeting its full potential.

Let's focus on what you have installed - so we can trace back what we need to try.

Had you previously used:

sudo apt install amdgpu amdgpu-dkms

Or did you install it from the AMD webpage?

I consider that on as medium. It’s close to a gtx 570 and gtx 950. For todays standards it’s more low.

When You go to Settings>About what Graphics is there shown to You?

I finally got it fixed. After scouring the web for hours and hours, I finally learned I needed to roll back the kernel to 5.15 with mainline. Did that and...poof! Fixed!

Thanks to all of you for your help troubleshooting!

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