On Tue, 18 May 2021 11:38:50 +0200
Ludovic Bellière <belliere.ludovic@???> wrote:

> On mar, 18 mai 2021, onefang wrote:
> > I recently bought an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT card. Your 5700 might
> > be too new for Beowulf, I had to jump through some hoops te get my
> > 5600 working fully. Using the 5.10 kernel from Beowulf-backports,
> > Mesa drivers and a bunch of related libraries from a third party
> > PPA, and a hack. I now have 3D virtual worlds and dual screen
> > working fine. No idea if any of that will work for a 5700, since I
> > don't have one.
>
> It has to be underlined that beowulf's mesa packages are two years
> old! As such, your somewhat recent graphic card will not have any
> recent fixes, or might not enable access to all the features of your
> hardware.
>
> If you want OpenGL 4.6, you're out of luck.
>
> Switching to devuan testing, chimaera, will solve most issue without
> resorting to the usage of ppa and other foolishness.

Normally I wouldn't consider it(risk a working system), but having
recently received two new boxen following the release of majic smoke
from the mail server, I'm actually in the position to do this on new
naked hardware. The global chip shortage meant I had to order over-spec
for a headless server, so the CFO/SWMBO'd's system was migrated to one
and the other now has the 5700 XT in it( the PS is sufficient X).

I understand the easiest method to install chimaera is a minimal
beowulf install and the the usual dist-grade route. As outline by
Florian about a month ago. (TY)