For a longer while I'm having multiple GPU's on a Linux desktop. Reason behind it is quite simple - I'm using it for crypto mining!
And I must say it was a big problem to use them at once. Just wanted my GeForce GTX 1060 to be a daily driver as I use my desktop for work and AMD Radeon RX 550 card I was dedicated for mining only. There are many guides on the web but nothing was working for me. Solution was quite simple but it took me a while to do it!
My desktop is latest Linux Mint 19.1 based on Ubuntu so my first thought was that it should work out of the box but it didn't.
I installed NVIDIA drivers using ubuntu-drivers
as it was the quickest way to go (at the time of writing I use driver version: 418.56) and it was running smooth and stable.
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└─╼ glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
Dedicated video memory: 3072 MB
Total available memory: 3072 MB
Currently available dedicated video memory: 2349 MB
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 418.56
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 418.56
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 418.56
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
After I'd plugged in the AMD card everything was still working fine until I installed amdgpu drivers.
root@desktop:~# lspci |grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] (rev a1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Lexa PRO [Radeon RX 550/550X] (rev c7)
First installation and a reboot caused my cinnamon environment to switch to a software rendering mode
and when I was looking on the logs there was lots of core dumps caused by having two drivers installed at the same time.
My problem was solved when AMD released amdgpu-pro-19.10!
To make it working I had to remove previous drivers (was using 18.50) and install it using two switches:
- --opencl=legacy Install legacy OpenCL support
- --headless Headless installation (only OpenCL support)
root@desktop:~# cd /home/bart/Downloads/amdgpu-pro-19.10-785425-ubuntu-18.04/
root@desktop:/home/bart/Downloads/amdgpu-pro-19.10-785425-ubuntu-18.04# ./amdgpu-install --opencl=legacy --headless
...
...
This was all I need to have both running at the same time.
root@desktop:# cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/1/amdgpu_pm_info
Clock Gating Flags Mask: 0x3fbcf
Graphics Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
Graphics Medium Grain memory Light Sleep: On
Graphics Coarse Grain Clock Gating: On
Graphics Coarse Grain memory Light Sleep: On
Graphics Coarse Grain Tree Shader Clock Gating: Off
Graphics Coarse Grain Tree Shader Light Sleep: Off
Graphics Command Processor Light Sleep: On
Graphics Run List Controller Light Sleep: On
Graphics 3D Coarse Grain Clock Gating: Off
Graphics 3D Coarse Grain memory Light Sleep: Off
Memory Controller Light Sleep: On
Memory Controller Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
System Direct Memory Access Light Sleep: Off
System Direct Memory Access Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
Bus Interface Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Bus Interface Light Sleep: On
Unified Video Decoder Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
Video Compression Engine Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
Host Data Path Light Sleep: On
Host Data Path Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
Digital Right Management Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
Digital Right Management Light Sleep: Off
Rom Medium Grain Clock Gating: On
Data Fabric Medium Grain Clock Gating: Off
GFX Clocks and Power:
1750 MHz (MCLK)
1183 MHz (SCLK)
214 MHz (PSTATE_SCLK)
625 MHz (PSTATE_MCLK)
968 mV (VDDGFX)
26.137 W (average GPU)
GPU Temperature: 65 C
GPU Load: 100 %
UVD: Disabled
VCE: Disabled
And its doing nice job now!
[2019-05-02 23:47:14] Stats Uptime: 3 days, 09:56:32
[2019-05-02 23:47:14] GPU 0 [66C, fan 36%] cnr: 458.0 h/s, avg 454.7 h/s, pool 414.9 h/s a:1020 r:1 hw:0
[2019-05-02 23:47:14] Total cnr: 458.0 h/s, avg 454.7 h/s, pool 414.9 h/s a:1020 r:1 hw:0