I've been running an RX 9070XT since close to release... I've also been running PopOS Cosmic Alpha for the past few months and for better game compatibility been sticking close to the latest mainline kernel.

Just yesterday, I tried getting ROCm working to see of I could use StableDiffusion. Well, in the end 6.16 is currently unsupported and after a few hours of fail, I managed to get the in the box kernel module working again and gave up. It is emphatically nice that many/most games now run through Mesa/Vulkan+Proton without issue... but it would be nice to actually be able to use some of the vaulted AI features in AMD's top current card in the leading edge Linux Kernel release with their platform.

Hopefully sooner than later, this will all "just work" mostly and won't be nearly the exercise in frustration for someone who hasn't been actively in the AI culture. I could create a partition for a prior distro/kernel or revert back, but I probably shouldn't have to, in general I tend to expect leading edge releases to work in the Linux ecosystem, or at least relatively quickly patched up.

▲ tylerflick 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

ROCm is a mess. I gave up on it and decided to run OpenCL on Vulkan: https://github.com/kpet/clvk

	▲	tracker1 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks... I haven't really followed ANY AI stuff up to this point, other than awareness that it exists... so have to say, my shallow dive yesterday was a bit off-putting to say the least. I'll dig into this over the weekend when I invariably try again.

▲ mindcrime 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hopefully sooner than later, this will all "just work" mostly and won't be nearly the exercise in frustration for someone who hasn't been actively in the AI culture.

There's definitely a lot of variation in experiences. In my case, on my box with an RX 9090 XTX, installing ROCm via apt did "just work" and I can compile and run programs against the GPU, and things like Ollama work with GPU acceleration with no weird fiddling or custom setup. And from what I hear, I'm definitely not the only person having this kind of experience.

	▲	tracker1 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of source reps in GitHub should seriously update their instructions then.

▲ Symmetry 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On Ubuntu 25.04 I use this to get ROCm up

    sudo apt install hipcc rocm-smi rocminfo clinfo

This won't get the newest, shiniest ROCm but it's fine for my purposes.

▲ JonChesterfield 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Rocm is vulnerable to kernel version. You want linux 6.11 for rocm 6.4 and linux 6.14 for rocm 7, and that isn't very negotiable.