For video editing, I was using Lightworks. It's fine, but I'm looking for something more sophisticated. I don't like timeline editing and the way you interact with it. There is always the same dropdown menu that can change depending on the context. The context is very unclear to me. I don't know when I should have what in that menu. It was cool to start with it, installation is easy, and basic editing is way easier than in Kdenlive. Well-spent money for the license.

Installing DaVinci Resolve on Linux can be a bit tricky. You need to have a dedicated graphics card. This installation guide is for my own needs. Let's check what we've got.

Graphics card #

$> lspci | grep -i vga

09:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] (rev c1)

Linux kernel #

$> uname -a
Linux cm 6.6.7-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 14 Dec 2023 03:45:42 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

DaVinci Resolve version #

pacman -Qs davinci-resolve
local/davinci-resolve 18.6.4-1

Useful links #

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DaVinci_Resolve

Troubleshooting #

Bellow I'll keep log of problems that I've experience over time.

Activate License problem #

https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=142281#p834190

Davinci do not have write access to license file.

Fix it in dumb way:

sudo chmod 777 /opt/resolve/.license

or fix it as it should be fixed

sudo chown -R undg /opt/resolve # where `undg` is my username

GPU error code: -1 #

Got this problem in January 2024.

Install extra/rocm-opencl-runtime to see second card (driver) in davinci gpu settings

sudo pacman -S rocm-opencl-runtime

Open any project -> Preferences -> memory and GPU
Set GPU processing mode and GPU selection to manual

I'm not sure if it was auto GPU or auto OpenCL but currently I have set this to:

mode: OpenCL
GPU: Main display (Details column) # driver from rocm-opencl-runtime

Can't start with error: #

./resolve: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_task_set_static_name

Got this problem in April 2024.

Problem is caused by incompatible lib gdk_pixbuf-2 version. I have this problem after update to 2.42.11.

Solution 1 #

Downgrading it to 2.42.10 is my temporary workaround.

In Arch Linux it's as simple as:

sudo downgrade gdk-pixbuf2

Pick 2.42.10 from the list, you may want to add this package to ignored list in pacman

Solution 2 #

Another way may be to add lib in this version to resolve lib folder. All, local to davinci-resolve, libs are in /opt/resolve/libs/*.so.

Solution 3 #

Third solution may be use LD_PRELOAD local env var to force use of specific lib:

LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so" /opt/resolve/bin/resolve

LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so" /opt/resolve/bin/resolve

Published 22 Dec 2023