Kris Limbach wrote:@ Vassillis I have a second partition with linux mint (ubuntu) on my studio desk, would you recommend trying it there?
I realized that with lightworks on Mint I get better gpu speed out of the box....
Actually, yes. I would recommend Mint over Manjaro. Over there, if Resolve refuses to run, you can still "trick" the AMDGPU-PRO to install. It would be great if you could a first install on a Kernel up to 4.9 and then head to the Kernel you wish to work with. It happens that the AMD DKMS is unable to install the Kernel module on a newer Kernel (and even their 17.30 version fails to do that). If you try to just install their OpenCL drivers and keeping MESA as your main (I tried it), you'll end up with a program freeze on load. Pity actually.
I'm currently on my nVidia laptop, so I don't have the driver "hack". Basically, AMDGPU-PRO installation script has an OS check in the first lines. You basically replace the "Ubuntu" word with "Linux" there (not SteamOS). Or take out the lines after the "else". That's what I did and the driver installation skipped the "unsupported OS" message & installed correctly.
Do install the drivers only if Resolve complains that there is no OpenCL device. Honestly, I do prefer the open source ones to the proprietary. But Resolve & Fusion can't properly identify the OpenCL there.
For Mint, the directions to install Resolve are here:
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=58668You can safely ignore the part of nVidia installation & nouveau driver. I tested it on an earlier beta on a couple of Mint installations and it works.
Once you install resolve, you will notice that when you run Resolve there, you will notice that gradings may not save and you could suffer crashes. Don't know if they fixed that in the latest beta (haven't tried that), but there is a workaround. Just create a new disk database on a place on the drive where permissions are no issue and you'll be set to go.