With Radeon HD 8550M system freezes when running 3D application

Submitted by Arham Amouei

Assigned to Default DRI bug account

Description

Created attachment 130753
dmesg output

My laptop has hybrid graphics.

Output of "lspci | grep AMD":

"0a:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Sun LE [Radeon HD 8550M / R5 M230] (rev ff)"

I use an application called "Visual Molecular Dynamics", which opens an OpenGL window and renders 3D images. There is no problem when using the integrated GPU. But when I run the application using DRI_PRIME=1, the system freezes when the OpenGL window is being opened. I need to use the dedicated GPU, because the integrated GPU isn't powerful enough for my work.

OS: Ubuntu 16.04 64bit, with last updates

Attachment 130753, "dmesg output":
dmesg.txt