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This applies to EasyOS Scarthgap. Not 100% sure that it also works on Kirkstone.

If you have a laptop with integrated AMD Radeon video chip, even if you don't have any video problem when using it, it may be that you aren't actually using the 3D acceleration power of your video chip (video acceleration is not just related to 3D graphics, strictly speaking), because its drivers are not installed / not in use. To check this, proceed as follows:

1) From PKGget, install the package xf86-video-amdgpu-22.0.0-r2 . Please notice that even if it is beiing shown as already installed, it could be anyway necessary to click on it for installing it.

2) Save the session and restart the system, or shut down the system saving the session and start it once again.

3) Now go here and download and install the radeontop package.

4) Open a Sakura shell and run Radeontop you will see some fields and some numbers. Those numbers show the load of your GPU:

# radeontop

5) Do right mouse click on the Sakura window and choose the New tab option (or simply launch another Sakura shell). On the new Sakura tab, issue the glxgears command:

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.301 FPS
224 frames in 5.0 seconds = 44.796 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.005 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.002 FPS

6) Now go back to the first Sakura shell where you launched Radeontop, you should see some load on the GPU. Notice that, the bigger you make the glxgears window, the higher the load on the GPU should be:

7) So basically, if you detect some load on your Radeon GPU you are OK. If not, that means that you are not using it at all.