AMD GPU driver installation issue and problems playing .mov files
Posted: 2020/09/29 14:19:22
Hello all, I am a new user of CentOS 8, and it is my first time using Linux. I am using it as a desktop OS (I selected the Workstation version during installation) since CentOS is the only free OS that offers updated drivers for my graphics card (an AMD FirePro S10000 12GB Passive Edition). Web browsing and watching YouTube videos works perfectly fine, but I am having a few major issues that I can't seem to fix:
(Fixed, see next post) 1. For some reason, all-core usage seems to fluctuate unexpectedly. For example, when using Shotcut (a free video editor I installed via FlatPak), exporting a video does not put all CPU cores at 100% like it does in Windows, even when I turn the quality to maximum. It only seems to use a certain amount of cores and then shift the load to a few other cores and then back again. This makes for a rather slow export speed. Not only that, but when I play the video in the editor itself, it only uses one core for rendering. I bought a Xeon E5-2680 V4 specifically for video editing purposes, but how am I supposed to justify that purchase if I can't get a program to use all 14 cores at once? The only other information I have about this is that cpufreq from the GNOME Software Store says "IRQBALANCE Detected," although after doing some research I'm not sure if that would be affecting multicore usage. The only program that seems to work well with multiple cores is Firefox, as when I hold down control + T (new tab), CPU usage goes up pretty high on most cores.
2. I cannot get .mov files to work, and I'm not sure if CentOS even supports .mov files. The issue is that my other computer is a Mac, and if I want to export a video from my Photos Library as a file, it will only export it in .mov format. When I tried using one in CentOS, it would fail to copy itself from the USB drive to the SSD on the computer (it said there was an input/output error), and then when I tried to play it off of the USB drive, all I got was a blank video player and an option to install a GStreamer plugin (which I already did) that supposedly had support for .mov files. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, but I cannot get .mov files to play in the included media player. The only time the .mov files can run is when I import them into Shotcut, but they are stored on the USB drive instead of the SSD, which is not ideal since the project breaks if I eject the USB drive.
3. I am having trouble fighting with administrator privileges for installing the AMD graphics drivers using the method detailed on this website (what the AMD website told me to go to): https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, as I cannot figure out how to open the folder containing the drivers in a root terminal window. I am the only user of the computer, and it is brand new, so I don't understand why it thinks I am not the root user. I figured out with the "su -" command to turn a "localhost" terminal window into a "root" terminal window, which is great and all, but I cannot figure out how to do the same with a file opened in terminal. When I follow the instructions on how to install the drivers, I believe I have to right-click on the folder containing the drivers and click "Run in Terminal," but it always opens as a localhost window instead of root, and when I try to proceed with installation, it says that I am not in the sudoer's file.
System Specs:
Intel Xeon E5-2680 V4
AMD FirePro S10000 12GB Passive Edition
32GB ECC DDR4 2133 Mhz
Huananzhi X99-8M Motherboard
I know that this is a long thread, but I would really appreciate it if someone could help me fix these issues. Thanks in advance.
(Fixed, see next post) 1. For some reason, all-core usage seems to fluctuate unexpectedly. For example, when using Shotcut (a free video editor I installed via FlatPak), exporting a video does not put all CPU cores at 100% like it does in Windows, even when I turn the quality to maximum. It only seems to use a certain amount of cores and then shift the load to a few other cores and then back again. This makes for a rather slow export speed. Not only that, but when I play the video in the editor itself, it only uses one core for rendering. I bought a Xeon E5-2680 V4 specifically for video editing purposes, but how am I supposed to justify that purchase if I can't get a program to use all 14 cores at once? The only other information I have about this is that cpufreq from the GNOME Software Store says "IRQBALANCE Detected," although after doing some research I'm not sure if that would be affecting multicore usage. The only program that seems to work well with multiple cores is Firefox, as when I hold down control + T (new tab), CPU usage goes up pretty high on most cores.
2. I cannot get .mov files to work, and I'm not sure if CentOS even supports .mov files. The issue is that my other computer is a Mac, and if I want to export a video from my Photos Library as a file, it will only export it in .mov format. When I tried using one in CentOS, it would fail to copy itself from the USB drive to the SSD on the computer (it said there was an input/output error), and then when I tried to play it off of the USB drive, all I got was a blank video player and an option to install a GStreamer plugin (which I already did) that supposedly had support for .mov files. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, but I cannot get .mov files to play in the included media player. The only time the .mov files can run is when I import them into Shotcut, but they are stored on the USB drive instead of the SSD, which is not ideal since the project breaks if I eject the USB drive.
3. I am having trouble fighting with administrator privileges for installing the AMD graphics drivers using the method detailed on this website (what the AMD website told me to go to): https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/, as I cannot figure out how to open the folder containing the drivers in a root terminal window. I am the only user of the computer, and it is brand new, so I don't understand why it thinks I am not the root user. I figured out with the "su -" command to turn a "localhost" terminal window into a "root" terminal window, which is great and all, but I cannot figure out how to do the same with a file opened in terminal. When I follow the instructions on how to install the drivers, I believe I have to right-click on the folder containing the drivers and click "Run in Terminal," but it always opens as a localhost window instead of root, and when I try to proceed with installation, it says that I am not in the sudoer's file.
System Specs:
Intel Xeon E5-2680 V4
AMD FirePro S10000 12GB Passive Edition
32GB ECC DDR4 2133 Mhz
Huananzhi X99-8M Motherboard
I know that this is a long thread, but I would really appreciate it if someone could help me fix these issues. Thanks in advance.