To check whether hardware acceleration is currently running during playback (as root/sudo) cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/amdgpu_pm_info | grep VCN:
I’m still trying to figure out the reasoning for this change.
Neither intel open source driver nor mesa driver is being developed by manjaro team, but included in manjaro repositories.
Also, this won’t block anyone from encoding and decoding streams (so using MPEG-LA intellectual property) in software,
Neither driver contains any patented code or logic, and only provides an API to EXTERNAL hardware that implements the function, that is developed, manufactured by legal companies, and bought and installed by the user or machine manufacturer. Not manjaro team.
And the machine itself is being used by the user, and the user holds responsibility how it is using it. Not manjaro (or any other distro) team.
Isn’t it ironic, that large companies use free open source encoders like x265 to deliver often paid and copyrighted content to users who are going to be not allowed to decode it on expensive proprietary hardware they paid for?
I noticed that now system monitor plasma-systemmonitor does not display GPU (Nvidia gtx1060) informations anymore; eg the sensors for temperature, memory and gpu frequency, gpu usage and vram usage are all at zero.
I suspected the GPU was somehow not detected or something like it but nvidia-smi --loop shows the GPU is correctly utilized and all of the related sensors work.
Just reporting here as before the update it was working correctly (Manjaro KDE, kernel 5.15.81, X11)
I’m having the same issue as well, plasma-systemmonitor is unable to display any of the sensors/usage stats of my graphics card (Nvidia RTX3070Ti) but other programs such as Nvidia control panel, mangohud, etc are able to display these usage statistics just fine. I’m running kernel 6.0.11-1-MANJARO and Nvidia driver version 525.60.11
It was also working just fine for me before the update, do we just need to wait for a plasma update, or is something else missing?
It should be noted that this is still a deliberate choice the Manjaro team is doing here, as the functionality could stay enabled. E.g. (and so far at least) Arch is keeping it enabled. So personally I think it would be nice to have a somewhat better explanation of the reasons behind this decision than making it sound as if it’s something that can’t be helped as it’s happening outside of Manjaro’s sphere of influence.
philm already gave the link in the description of changes ! if you had taken only a single moment to read it you would know why ! your question is already answered so don’t waste our time.
Also, why cripple specifically hardware acceleration for only one brand, but leaving SOFTWARE acceleration by cpu in place?
If the former is allegedly a legally grey area, wouldn’t the latter surely put any distro far into sue-me country?
I would really be grateful for an explanation here…
That is not correct. Manjaro as a distro isn’t committed to only distribute free software.
The reason is stated in the very first post of this announcment: (IMHO unfounded) fear of patent violations and liability.
Ok, fair enough.
I guess there might be different opinions in the team.
But in particular if that’s the decision of a company, the continued availability of software decoding (please, correct me if I’m wrong) for the very same codecs makes it either look like a very half-cooked decision or a somewhat insincere/incomplete explanation.
so yeah there has to be linux 6.0. But since I am not quite aware of things like [EOL] and rt54 and r14, I thought of asking here. I know my question was stupid but I would be grateful if I was educated on these things.
My original being : is stable update receiving 6.0 kernel or is it still in version 5 ?
rt means “Experimental” (the actual word I don’t right now, but that’s what it boils down to; rc is “Release Candidate”, EOL is “End of Life”, thus about to lose support. Unless you know exactly what you’re doing, stay away from kernels with letters in their version numbers -they’re for testing, and may well give you a headache.