Installing Davinci Resolve with a Radeon Card

[Zorixas]

Hello everyone, I'm a long time Linux Mint user that has mostly been silent up until now.

I wish to try out Davinci Resolve, and I've looked at many different guides and posts on how to install it, but one problem keeps popping up. All of the guides say to use up-to-date nVidia drivers, but I have a Radeon RX 560 installed. Is there a way for Davinci Resolve to work with AMD Graphics cards? Or have I chosen to join the red team at a bad time?

My OS is Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia Cinnamon 64-bit.

[deepakdeshp]

Supported cards. https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/linux

Code: Select all

inxi -Fxz

command will list your card.

[Zorixas]

Supported cards. https://support.amd.com/en-us/download/linux

Code: Select all

inxi -Fxz

command will list your card.

Apologies for the late response. What I'm seeing is odd, it's not showing me the card. I know that it's an Radeon RX 560, I have Windows 10 installed on another hard drive, and it is listing the card correctly in the device manager and Speccy.

Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device 67ff bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,amdgpu (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,radeon)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD POLARIS11 (DRM 3.18.0 / 4.13.0-37-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)

[Zorixas]

Every time I try to install the drivers, I get a black screen with a flashing cursor at the top left corner.

[Zorixas]

OK, I managed to solve the issue, thanks to the last answer from here:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... on-mint-18

Seeing that The Radeon RX 560 is before the Vega, I used legacy in place of rocm, and I didn't need to use the entry: usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME.

Thank you all for your assistance.

[Zorixas]

Wanted to give a warning. After following the instructions, some installations broke. Mainly from software installed via flatpak, such as Blender and Viber. They don't start up properly, so I'm going to have to undo those changes and find another method.

[Hoser Rob]

I think anyone who wants to try Resolve should also read this tnread, esp. the last post:

viewtopic.php?f=48&t=244539