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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/19/2018 11:54 AM, Kretschmer,
Jens wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi,</div>
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Hello<br>
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<div>we are looking into buying a Radeon Pro WX-series
graphics card. We are still unsure which driver we will
use. I saw that <font size="2" face="Arial"
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Yes, it was retired for EL7 but it is also was useless nowadays as
it only supported older hardware and for older RHEL releases ( it
was no longer compatible with the version of Xorg included in EL7.4
). It can still be used on RHEL6 for now ( I use it on the very
system I am typing from )<br>
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<div> Our contact
at RedHat could not tell us whether the series is supported
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I have not yet seen an ATI chipset non functional with the open
source driver. However on several occasions it was not optimal, such
as not really accelerating anything or not being able to drive
multiple monitors at full resolution. As you suspect it is quite
possible that the chipset you are interested in is not fully
supported by the open source driver for now.<br>
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<div>Our requirement is basically full support of OpenGL 3.2.
Does anybody have experience using Radeon Pro WX-series
graphics cards, if yes, which driver are you using and
how is your experience? Are there any plans to include the
proprietary graphics driver provided by AMD into ELRepo? </div>
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That chipset seems to be supported by
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/workstation?os=Linux+x86_64#pro-driver">https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/workstation?os=Linux+x86_64#pro-driver</a>.
To cut a long story short, AMD started ( last year, IIRC ) to
provide "a few" rpms ( read that as "dozens" ) which supposedly work
with the latest incarnations of EL6 and EL7. Based on the name
("amdgpu-dkms") the relevant parts might be able to be rebuilt, in a
proper env, once the kernel is updated thus avoiding the need for a
reinstall. Due to lack of need ( I only use / have access to APUs),
I was never able to test those packages. And as you probably guessed
already, given the sheer number of packages and the lack of hardware
to test on, for now I am not able ( and not interested, to be fully
honest ) to repackage those drivers.<br>
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Manuel<br>
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