Emma Boudreau
1 min readJun 30, 2022

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So long as your card is a Volcanic Islands, Southern Islands, or Sea Islands card, then the kernel compile parameters should do the trick! Your card fits these parameters, as it is Rx 200 - and an SI card. It should be noted that any SI/VI/CI card, or terascale 2 card more broadly, running on AMDGPU could cause bugs.

Luckily, there is no other real information on this other than Arch Wiki and this article -- so you are in the perfect place! The instructions that I lay out in this piece should work for you. If you have any problems, feel free to write another response or dm me on Twitter.

I did this years and years ago without this article, and just finding good documentation for it was difficult -- especially since VI cards are not even listed at all when it comes to amdgpu!

Here's a bit more info on amdgpu, specifically enabling it for your card:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_(SI)_and_Sea_Islands_(CIK)_support

Here is a bit more info on Rx 200:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_Rx_200_series

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Emma Boudreau
Emma Boudreau

Written by Emma Boudreau

i am a computer nerd. I love art, programming, and hiking. https://github.com/emmaccode

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