{"id":3162,"date":"2023-12-22T16:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2023-12-29T19:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T01:04:41","slug":"rocky-9-radeon-hd-7570m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/2023\/12\/rocky-9-radeon-hd-7570m","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Linux 9 &amp; HP Elitebook 8470p: GPU problems irreconciled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Linux 9 had poor graphical performance on my HP EliteBook 8470p laptop.<\/p>\n<p>On investigation, it was using the \"llvmpipe\" Mesa backend, because it lacked ati_drv.so (from <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.freedesktop.org\/xorg\/radeon\/\">\u201cxf86-video-ati\u201d<\/a>,) for the AMD Radeon HD 7570M GPU; backporting[?] that package from Rocky Linux 8 then rebooting left Steam not finding r600_dri.so (though it seems to have fixed hardware acceleration for Firefox\/etc.); scooping up that library from the Rocky Linux Stream 8 RPM (had to transplant it since the RPM had dependency issues; had to transplant it to \/usr because Steam wouldn't find it at \/usr\/local; Steam complained <em>both<\/em> about the absence of the 32-bit and 64-bit versions; so I got them both) for some reason still left Steam kinda non-functional.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/2023\/08\/rocky-9-centrino-n-6300-3e\">struggles with RHEL 9 on this laptop<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Linux 9 had poor graphical performance on my HP EliteBook 8470p laptop. On investigation, it was using the \"llvmpipe\" Mesa backend, because it lacked ati_drv.so (from \u201cxf86-video-ati\u201d,) for the AMD Radeon HD 7570M GPU; backporting[?] that package from Rocky Linux 8 then rebooting left Steam not finding r600_dri.so (though it seems to have fixed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ishygddt.xyz\/~blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}