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[h_l]

Hi.

I have some issues running an OpenCL program from the Linux console. I already learned from [1] that the program needs to have root privileges and the X window system needs to be stopped.

But immediately after the program starts, the screen begins to flicker. After the program has finished the flickering still continues. I assume this is not caused by my program because I got the same effect when running samples from the APP SDK or just 'clinfo'.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

[1] OpenCL with no X-server on Linux

System info:

Number of platforms:    1

  Platform Profile:     FULL_PROFILE

  Platform Version:     OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1411.4)

  Platform Name:        AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

  Platform Vendor:      Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

  Platform Extensions:  cl_khr_icd cl_amd_event_callback cl_amd_offline_devices cl_amd_hsa

[...]

  Platform Name:        AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

Number of devices:      2

  Device Type:          CL_DEVICE_TYPE_GPU

  Device ID:            4098

  Board name:           AMD Radeon R7 Series

[...]

  Platform ID:          0x00007fda166ef500

  Name:                 Spectre

  Vendor:               Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

  Device OpenCL C version:  OpenCL C 1.2

  Driver version:       1411.4 (VM)

  Profile:              FULL_PROFILE

  Version:              OpenCL 1.2 AMD-APP (1411.4)

[amd_support]

Hi h_I,

    I ran the clinfo from console but I didn't observe any flickering in my machine. I took the following steps

    From console:

    1. Disabled any running Xserver using "sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop".

    2. Ran sudo clinfo. It lists both CPU and GPU without flikring.

    (Tested on Radeon HD 6570 with AMD FX 4100, and driver 1359.4)

Thanks,

AMD_Support