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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 20:46:18 JST Polychrome :blabcat:
   A friend is trying to run DaVinci Resolve on a fresh, vanilla install of Pop!_OS but it keeps failing to find the GPU - a Radeon RX470.
   
   Does anyone have experience with this issue? I figured it's missing OpenCL drivers but adding these didn't help - DaVinci just doesn't list the GPU on the list of available cards.
   
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 20:46:16 JST 翠星石

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     @Polychrome Why is your friend shooting themselves in the foot with proprietary malware?
     
     A good friend would recommend straight ffmpeg, KDEnlive and/or blender.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 21:33:49 JST 翠星石

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     • Quad ?
     @quad >I don't think the open source drivers do compute for that card
     The AMDGPU drivers aren't even "open source", while they're released under the MIT expat license, they do not operate without proprietary software in the form of loadable firmware running on the GPU.
     
     mesa is free software and does implement opencl, although not completely - the opencl implementation works just fine with free software programs like waifu2x-convertor-cpp mind you.
     
     
     Proprietary malware tends to require the newest versions of opencl and doesn't account for incomplete implementations pretty much.
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     Quad ? (quad@weeaboo.space)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 21:33:50 JST Quad ?

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     @Polychrome I don't think the open source drivers do compute for that card (At least not properly) so you'll most likely need to install the proprietary amdgpu-pro components