Edit: I think I’ve figured it out, it seems like Linux Mint defaulted to the wrong Kernel driver and I was able to switch it to the correct one.
I’ve already tried searching for this online but there is a reason I’m posting about it here. The last time I tried to install Vulkan drivers in Linux Mint, there was an update to the oibaf PPA that completely broke my Linux Mint installation and I had to manually reinstall it. I’ve read that, at least in the past, the oibaf PPA causes problems in Ubuntu but I can’t find another solution to installing Vulkan drivers in Linux Mint. Is that the only way to install the Vulkan Drivers in Linux Mint, or is there another way?
Also, yes, Vulkan works in Windows and it did work in my previous installation of Linux.
Vulkan drivers come as part of Mesa, which would already be part of Linux Mint. Unless you have an Nvidia GPU, or a GPU that’s somehow too modern for Mint 21.3.
My GPU shouldn’t be too modern because it just recently became EOL. The only thing I know is that when ever I try to run something that requires Vulkan in Linux, it defaults to using Lavapipe instead of my GPU and if it try to disable Lavapipe, it acts like Vulkan isn’t installed.
What GPU are you using? What influenced you to add “Oibaf PPA” instead of using the default built in Mesa drivers that came with Mint? No judgement, just trying to figure out what led you here, so we can unravel it. Because as the other poster mentioned, Vulkan for Amd should have worked out of the box on a fresh install.
Edit, to clarify, did you add the repo because you thought that mint didn’t have drivers and that was the way to get them? Or was there a different reason you needed to add the repo?
Because Vulkan has never worked out of the box for me in either Ubuntu nor Linux Mint and every single search result on every single search engine states that Ubuntu and it’s derivatives need that PPA for Vulkan to work. I would have tried other solutions if there was even a single mention of another way to get Vulkan working.
The GPU is an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics. It was a bit hard for me to find and I have no idea if it’s accurate but it should support at least Vulkan 1.2.170.
I’m not a Mint user but according to this page https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_wilma.php
- Run the Driver Manager
- Choose the NVIDIA drivers and wait for them to be installed
- Reboot the computer
