This is a guide to set up Folding@Home with an AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT on Fedora 40+. There shouldn’t be a need to install amdpu-pro or any other proprietary drivers. This ROCm version 6.4.0 works fine with the kernel amd driver.

Requirements

• Fedora 42
• Kernel 6.16.3-200.fc42.x86_64
• AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
• Folding @ Home client v. 8.4.10

Steps

1) Install the required packages:

sudo dnf install "kernel-headers-$(uname -r)" "kernel-devel-$(uname -r)" -y
sudo dnf install python3-setuptools python3-wheel -y

2) Set group permissions:

sudo usermod -a -G render,video $USER
echo 'ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/adduser.conf
echo 'EXTRA_GROUPS=video' | sudo tee -a /etc/adduser.conf
echo 'EXTRA_GROUPS=render' | sudo tee -a /etc/adduser.conf

3) Add udev rules

1. Create a new file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-amdgpu.rules with the following content:

KERNEL=="kfd", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="drm", KERNEL=="renderD*", MODE="0666"

1. Reload udev rules:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

4) Register ROCm repositories:

To avoid some errors, do this first: sudo rm -rf /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo

    sudo tee --append /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<EOF
    [ROCm-6.4]
    name=ROCm6.4
    baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/el9/6.4/main
    enabled=1
    priority=50
    gpgcheck=1
    gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
    EOF
    sudo dnf clean all

5) Install ROCm packages

sudo dnf install rocm -y -> This should take a while

6) Configure the system linker by indicating where to find the shared objects (.so files) for the ROCm applications

sudo tee --append /etc/ld.so.conf.d/rocm.conf <<EOF
/opt/rocm/lib
/opt/rocm/lib64
EOF
sudo ldconfig

7) Make sure that fah-client is on groups render and video groups fah-client If not, do sudo usermod -a -G render fah-client and RESTART YOUR SYSTEM Check Web UI System Info section if your GPU is now supported (Should say True next to Supported)

References

1.ROCm v 6.2.4 installation for Linux

2.Ultimate AMD GPU Linux FAH Guide for OpenCL (FAH-Client v8 only)

Steps

• First you need to have teams-for-linux installed from flatpak
• Then you create a directory on some place that you want to hold he configurations and required files mkdir -p <some_place>
• Then you run:

HOME=$HOME/<some_place> flatpak run com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux

• If you want something more easily integrated with Desktop managers you may write a .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]

# The type as listed above
Type=Application

# Version
Version=1.12.5

# App name
Name=<name_you_wannagive_your_instance>

# Comment
Comment=Teams for Linux instance for <whatever_you_want>

# Path from where the executable is run
Path=

# The executable of the Application
Exec=/bin/sh -c "HOME=$HOME/<some_place_youve_set> flatpak run com.github.IsmaelMartinez.teams_for_linux"


# The absolute path of the Icon used
Icon=

# Describes wheter this application needs to be run in a terminal or not
Terminal=false

# Describes the categories in which this entry should be should
Categories=Internet;chat;communication

And thats it. Run xdg-desktop-menu install <file_path_you gave>.desktop --novendor && xdg-desktop-menu forceupdate And it should appear as an application you can launch.

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The project entails a C++-based Banking System that uses a DB (mariaDB) and some GUI or graphical backend, currently dearImGUI. There should be build system and dependecy manager as well to help automatize the whole building and development process. For this I chose Conan2. Security is also a topic I intend to go for, since it’s a banking application, so SSL and cryptography are also in.

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