How I Fixed DaVinci Resolve in Minutes!
Fix DaVinci Resolve on openSUSE Tumbleweed (AMD/ROCm) with Distrobox + Rocky Linux. No Dockerfiles, no DKMS in containers—just Podman, EPEL, AMD’s ROCm OpenCL, and a menu entry. Step-by-step commands, explained simply, for DaVinci Resolve Studio 20.2 GPU acceleration on Tumbleweed.
What you’ll learn
· Why Resolve targets RHEL/Rocky and how that helps on Tumbleweed.
· Passing /dev/dri and /dev/kfd to containers for AMD GPUs.
· Installing ROCm OpenCL (not DKMS) in Rocky 8.
· Distrobox desktop integration: HOME, X11/Wayland, audio—works out of the box.
Commands shown
· Host: zypper install distrobox podman, add user to video,render.
· Container: Rocky 8 creation with device flags, EPEL, AMD repo, rocm-opencl, then Resolve installer.
Sources: AMD ROCm quick start; Distrobox docs; openSUSE container GPGPU notes; Blackmagic forum guidance on Rocky/CentOS support.
Containerfile: https://github.com/thelinuxlighthouse...
Chapters:
00:00:00 What Happened?
00:00:47 What we're doing?
00:01:27 Prerequisites on the host (Tumbleweed)
00:02:17 Create and enter the Rocky Linux container
00:03:27 Keep the container lean (optional but recommended)
00:03:44 Enable EPEL or Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (inside the container)
00:04:22 Base runtime libraries (inside the container)
00:04:47 Add AMD’s repository and install ROCm OpenCL (inside the container)
00:05:45 Install DaVinci Resolve (inside the container)
00:06:34 Desktop launcher on KDE Plasma (from the host)
00:07:32 GUI to manage containers - Boxbuddy
00:07:43 Why this fixes the “project stuck on loading” issue
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