How to set up Radeon Pro W7500 properly on Manjaro?

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Hello,

On March I have moved 100% from Windows to Manjaro.

I am a big fan of providing computing power for scientific purposes via Folding at Home and BOINC. I have two eGPUs - one with RTX 2000 Ada and the second one with Radeon Pro W7500.

Setting up Radeon was harder from the start, but for a few weeks it was running Folding at Home correctly. I had been using ROCm at that time. I remember that it did not work completely without ROCm.

Unfortunately, on 30 August I updated everything on Manjaro, and the next day Radeon stopped working and I can’t repair it till today. That day kernel updated from 6.12.41 to 6.12.44, but there were also other updates, linux-firmware etc.

  • the Radeon was working correctly, when Folding at Home saw it as “gfx1102” in web client

  • I tried reinstalling ROCm multiple times, reinstalling linux-firmware, amdgpu-firmware, amdgpu-pro, practically reinstalling or installing everything what Gemini and GPT knew; downgrading them to previous versions; today I even tried to switch Kernel from 6.12 to 6.1 as Gemini and GPT were saying to me, that kernel 6.12 is too new and therefore not fully supported by AMD drivers and with 6.1 it would be nice - it ended up with system not booting but doing memtest all the time, but at least for the first time in my life I was able to repair the grub with Live USB so I’m happy that I tried and learned something. I tried also cloning some packages from git and building them on my PC, I tried adding some environmental variables, nothing worked.
    With some of these software I can get FAH and OpenCL “see” Radeon, but OpenCL “does not connect” with Radeon - clinfo displays number of devices 0, FAH displays supported: “false”. I also tried repeating the steps I did in early August when I was able to set it up, but I was unable to get the same results now.

“Best” I was able to do in last 9 days, was installing opencl-mesa (aka rusticl), and with that Radeon is detectable, supported: “True” by FAH and connects with opencl, but it crashes many working units before getting stable one, then gets joint working unit with Nvidia GPU, and software like radeontop and sensors suggests, that Radeon is like getting vestigial work, it never gets upon 20 Watts; it seems like Nvidia is doing two tasks at once with ~50% power on each (one solo, one joint with Radeon), and Radeon is theoretically working but doing almost nothing. When I dont connect Nvidia GPU, Radeon is in loop of downloading tasks and crashing them infinitely.

When it comes to BOINC, it never worked with Radeon - it was downloading tasks but they were crashing after 2 seconds, no matter which project. With opencl-mesa it does not even download them, downloading tasks worked only until 30 August when Radeon was displayed as “gfx1102” by FAH.

All cables, eGPUs, PSUs etc. are ok, the problem is 100% software.

I would be very grateful for any advice, By the way, AMD providing better software support for gaming GPUs than “professional” GPUs on Linux is irrational.

Update:

listings from my console:

sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300

Skipping already installed config ‘video-linux’ for device: 0000:2e:00.0 (0300:10de:28b0) Display controller nVidia Corporation AD107GL [RTX 2000 / 2000E Ada Generation]
Skipping already installed config ‘video-linux’ for device: 0000:06:00.0 (0300:1002:7489) Display controller ATI Technologies Inc Navi 33 [Radeon Pro W7500]
Skipping already installed config ‘video-linux’ for device: 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:a7ad) Display controller Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-U [Intel Graphics]

sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300

Skipping already installed config ‘video-linux’ for device: 0000:2e:00.0 (0300:10de:28b0) Display controller nVidia Corporation AD107GL [RTX 2000 / 2000E Ada Generation]
Skipping already installed config ‘video-linux’ for device: 0000:06:00.0 (0300:1002:7489) Display controller ATI Technologies Inc Navi 33 [Radeon Pro W7500]
Skipping already installed config ‘video-linux’ for device: 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:a7ad) Display controller Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-U [Intel Graphics]

inxi: https://pastebin.pl/view/cdfe9046

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Hi, I updated my original post with listings.

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Those commands given were not to generate any “listings” but to detect/activate the appropriate drivers for your GPU(s).

What you have effectively done is to attempt to install the free drivers, followed then by the nonfree drivers, both of which were already installed.

Info:- Only one set of drivers is required – either the free or the nonfree, but not both. :eyes:

Otherwise, for the time being we’ve established that the drivers are properly installed. Beyond that, let’s see what others might have to add.

Regards.

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A couple of weeks ago I fumbled with getting ollama running on my system using a Radeon 7900XTX and Linux 6.16…

I got some help to get it running by reading this Forget ChatGPT, I Built My Own Local AI with AMD RX 7900 XTX, Ollama & DeepSeek-R1 - Karl.Fail

It was doable - it required some tweaking - but eventually I got there - without containerisation - I have only used it for nonsense - it was entirely to see if I could figure it out.

I have used a local ollama instance and the gpt-oss:120b LLM

How can I configure Manjaro Linux for use with Folding@Home using AMD W7500

I got an extremely comprensive answer - in fact a stop by step guide - but I have no idea if it will work. In fact it looks like the W7500 is not supported by the current ROCm. One need to use legacy libraries to be able to run Folding@Home.

The stable update 2025-08-29T22:00:00Z included ROCm - which may explain some of your issues.

I can provide the information, but only on request and with a total disclamer of validity or usablility as I have not tested the response but only skimmed it loosely.

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Thanks for response.

As I said earlier, I tried downgrading rocm and some other packages to the older version, but it did not help.

Someone on Folding at Home forum sent me that post, but it did not help me also.
https://foldingforum.org/viewtopic.php?p=371574#p371574

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Have you sourced this Folding@home - ArchWiki on your quest to get it working?

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Since your W7500 (gfx1102) isn’t supported by ROCm you can try forcing ROCm to use the closest model that is supported, which would be W7700 (gfx1101). This is done via the HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION environment variable. E.g.

export HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.1

Or put it in /etc/environment (without the export, so just HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.1).

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Thanks I will try when I will have a piece of time.

By the way, W7700 being supported while W7500 and W7600 not whereas they are from the same series, is even more crazy for me.

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I have to use such override for Radeon 7900XTX to be able to use it with ollama

Setting it in the systemd service

Environment="HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.0"

I have played with a W7100 on a secondary system - as an attempt to test this issue - but I didn’t think of using the override… and as you failed - I failed :slight_smile:

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Unfortunately a common theme with AMD is that they build great hardware and rubbish software. They’ve made such a mess with ROCm/HIP and now it’s really costing them in the current AI boom/bubble.

Heh. I have a RX 6800 (gfx1030) which is exactly the same as a PRO W6800 (gfx1030) just with 16GB vram instead of 32GB. It works perfectly with ROCm but it isn’t officially supported on Linux because I didn’t spend $$$ on a “professional” gpu.

And yet on Windows they do officially support everything from the RX 6950 XT down to the RX 6600. ROCm wasn’t even available on Windows until 2 years ago (another awful short-sighted mistake).

Compare with NVIDIA who support CUDA on all their consumer gpus (and don’t throw previous generation hardware under the bus like AMD did with RX 5000 series owners). I still wouldn’t buy an overpriced NVIDIA gpu which needs proprietary drivers but it really annoys me just how poorly AMD have executed with ROCm. IMHO they’d have been better off spending the last 9 years improving open standards like OpenCL/VulkanML instead of trying emulate NVIDIA’s vendor API lock-in.

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@MrLavender @linux-aarhus Thank You very very very much, my Radeon Pro W7500 is working with FAH after I set HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION to 11.0.0, I’m very grateful.

And yeah, after I searched official AMD infos, ROCm/HIP support is a complete mess, but at last it works for me now and helps people.

By the way, what abour Intel GPU support? They released very energy efficient Intel Arc B50 recently.

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That would require some research - but I have no intention of getting one of those - I don’t know about integrating with AI or folding@home - but I do see topics from time to time that Intel Arc cards can be difficult to work with.

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