LACT AMD GPU configuration tool overclock not working

[sabo999]

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Summary

when you first open LACT there is a sudo command you need to do to enable the daemon. that is fine and that works correctly. the problem comes when you go into the overclocking tab, to be able to change parameters on your gpu you need to press a tab called "overclock" and i dont know what it does but it regenerates initramfs afterwards. The error pops up there

Steps to reproduce

1. open LACT
2. do sudo command and close LACT
3. reopen LACT and go to OC tab
4. at top press "overclock" button and the error should pop up

Expected result

it should say overclocking enabled, please reboot the system to enable, or something similar to this

Actual result

produced an error and nothing happened, no overclock controls are being enabled even with rebooting

Environment

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Repo

Shannon (stable)

Desktop Environment

GNOME

System details

System: Host: ammod-solus Kernel: 6.10.13-304.current arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME v: 46.5 Distro: Solus 4.5 resilience Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B650 GAMING X AX V2 serial: UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F32c date: 09/27/2024 CPU: Info: 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D [MT MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 4921 min/max: 545/5050 Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 [Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900 GRE/7900M] driver: amdgpu v: kernel Device-2: Logitech Webcam C270 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.3 compositor: gnome-shell driver: gpu: amdgpu resolution: 2560x1080~200Hz API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.2.3 renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (radeonsi navi31 LLVM 18.1.8 DRM 3.57 6.10.13-304.current) Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8852CE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network driver: rtw89_8852ce Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE driver: r8169 Drives: Local Storage: total: 15.24 TiB used: 505.31 GiB (3.2%) Info: Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.96 GiB used: 13.72 GiB (44.3%) Processes: 447 Uptime: 5h 10m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.36

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[uni-dos]

Do you have the kernel parameter set?

[sabo999]

i'm going to be very blunt and honest with you here. I have NEVER EVER ONCE had to do that in ANY other distro, so no, i have no idea how to do that. In any other distro, i just click the button, it does something, and i reboot. I looked through that document but 1. i dont know which boot system solus uses 2. i dont know where to add the kernel parameter 3. i dont know how to rebuild initramfs, if i even have to. thanks for your time

[uni-dos]

No worries. So for lact to work, it needs to have a boot parameter set. If you type this command into your terminal printf 'amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0x%x\n' "$(($(cat /sys/module/amdgpu/parameters/ppfeaturemask) | 0x4000))" you'll get some amdgpu.ppfeaturemask and some hex values. Next, you'll follow this. But if you do not want to read it, type the following echo '$outputfromcommand' | sudo tee /etc/kernel/cmdline.d/40_amdgpu_control.conf Finally, type sudo clr-boot-manager update and reboot.

[malfisya]

@uni-dos maybe you can include that file with the package? Maybe ship it somewhere in /usr/lib ( I am not reading the docs yet). For example droidcam need to ship some config files to make it work out of the box.

[sabo999]

sorry to say but i did it like you said and even read the doc and tried it a few different way but overclocking was not enabled and i was not able to see my clocks or any info at all.