Drivers & Software

[KristijanZic]

AMDGPU-PRO causes serious screen tearing on Ubuntu 20.04. It's present both under X11 and under Wayland but under Wayland it's much more severe.

I've installed the driver like this:

./amdgpu-pro-install -y --opencl=pal

Driver: AMDGPU-PRO 20.04

Tested kernels: 5.4.0-52-generic, 5.4.0-54-generic and 5.4.0-56-generic 

Note: To test 5.4.0-56-generic kernel I had to first install the 20.40 driver 5.4.0-54-generic kernel and only then could I install 5.4.0-56-generic kernel and it was working. Otherwise, if 5.4.0-56-generic kernel was installed on the machine, the driver would failed to install.

Note: AMDGPU-PRO 20.45 couldn't install on any kernel.

OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS x86_64
Shell: bash 5.0.17
Resolution: 1920x1200
DE: GNOME
WM: Mutter
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: Yaru [GTK2/3]
CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X (16) @ 3.800GHz
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid
Memory: 15930MiB

Is there anything I can do to help and test for AMD to resolve this issue?

[KristijanZic]

So.. many months have passed. Screen tearing has been present on Wayland for any combination of kernel and amdgpu-pro version.

So now I'm on the 5.8.0-59-generic kernel with amdgpu-pro 21.10 and rocr opencl because OpenCL doesn't work at all in 21.20.

I've reported this issue via email too. I am yet to hear any response from  AMD!

AMD staff are you here? Is this your community forum? Will you ever respond? What about all the bug reports via email? Do I have to sue for you to check this issue out? If I need to do that, I will!