Enable AMD GPU support on Arch Linux

Install the necessary packages

<pre><code>pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu mesa <ul> <li><a href="https://www.archlinux.de/packages/extra/x86_64/mesa" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">mesa is the DRI driver for 3D hardware acceleration.  <li><a href="https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xf86-video-amdgpu/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" title="This link will take you away from hive.blog" class="external_link">xf86-video-amdgpu is the DDX driver for 2D hardware acceleration used in Xorg. <p dir="auto">After installation enable the modules in configuration of Mkinitcpio. Open for this  <pre><code>/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf <p dir="auto">Add the amdgpu driver in modules variable: <pre><code> MODULES=(amdgpu) <p dir="auto">Build now your kernels <pre><code>mkinitcpio -P <p dir="auto">Set the kernel parameter for SI/CIK Graphicscard support.  <pre><code>radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1    <br /> <br /> radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1  <p dir="auto">In addition, you can enable overclocking features with: <p dir="auto"><strong> amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xfffd7fff or <strong>amdgpu.ppfeaturemask=0xffffffff depending on the card. <p dir="auto">  Save the changes and update grub. <pre><code>update-grub<br /> reboot