2w ago

has anyone managed to run rocm on the deck?

I've been trying to install rocm on the deck following this guide

(https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeckTricks/comments/102xxww/guide_how_to_install_rocm_for_gpu_julia/)

with the only exception that i used a generic ubuntu container on podman instead of using distrobox; I reach to the point where i need to use amdgpu-install to run rocm, but when i do it tries to install 30gb of files; which unfortunately it's not feasible on my metered connection and storage (╥﹏╥). From what i saw from this issue on github there should be a way to select only the needed binaries for the specific chipset;

The question is, what should i do to install only the stuff necessary for the deck?

Sorry for the long post.

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I had it running for image generation. As far as I recall it was slow and buggy so I didn't do more with it.

Try Vulkan in Koboldcpp https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/tag/v1.81.1
I haven't heard of anyone trying it on deck but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

I probably can't help, I have ROCM acceleration working on my desktop linux PC for image gen and LLMs, but I don't think I had to install the massive rocm files for it to work.
What specifically are you trying to run using ROCM? If I remember right most of the stuff I tried just needed pytorch, which I would install in a python venv with pip3 install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/rocm6.3 That's still pretty heft though, my current venv is 16GB in size, but may include some duplicate/old files from repeated upgrades without cleaning.
- I'm mostly trying to run text-generation-webui for fun; what did you install to run image generation if you never installed the rocm binaries? Hopefully i should be able to replicate it in a container
  
  Pytorch includes the necessary ROCm files for image gen as far as I know. My computer does have an /opt/ROCm folder but it's only a few megabytes in size.
  Unfortunately I don't see any mention of pytorch in your linked program, and it does mention a proper ROCm install as a requirement there.

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