I'm using Linux Mint and I was trying to enable GPU rendering, but I still have only CPU option in user preferences...
- Linux Mint 17.1 x64
- Radeon HD 7850
- Blender 2.75 rc2
- amd-catalyst 15.5
solved by myself
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Maybe this is useful :) : anteru.net/2014/08/24/2500 – Faceb Faceb Jun 24 '15 at 18:11
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thank you, but i seen that and it's not working for me, that's why i'm here – Dmitry Jun 24 '15 at 18:34
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what have you tried to get it working? have you read the GPU guide blender.org/manual/render/cycles/gpu_rendering.html ? – wardrums Jun 25 '15 at 5:17
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i was trying to set up environment variables ( CYCLES_OPENCL_SPLIT_KERNEL_TEST=1, and CYCLES_OPENCL_TEST=all ), running Blender as root, installing Blender from software center and repeat same. yes i read that before (GPU guide) – Dmitry Jun 25 '15 at 10:09
I have found solution to my problem. To enable openCl on Linux Mint 17.1 with ATI radeon video card just install ocl-icd-libopencl1 package for 64 bit system, or ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 for 32 bit system. No need to run Blender as root or set up environment variable.
On Ubuntu open the Terminal and do:
sudo apt-get install ocl-icd-opencl-dev
then:
CYCLES_OPENCL_SPLIT_KERNEL_TEST=1 blender
