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I've just always followed the Arch wiki, and never tried using Vulkan without vulkan-radeon on my one PC with an AMD card. The wiki states: "Install the mesa package, which provides both the DRI driver for 3D acceleration and VA-API/VDPAU drivers for accelerated video decoding." and "For Vulkan support install vulkan-radeon (lib32-vulkan-radeon for 32-bit applications).".The vulkan page itself says:
The vulkan-radeon package provides the ICD (
); so does nvidia-utils (
, but mesa does not.
That's interesting. You generally don't need to manually install that. You've prompted me to play around with arch once I return from the most beautiful city in the world.
Which distro and dgpu are you using, if you don't mind me asking?
Updated the comment. (The ICD is explicitly installed by vulkan-radeon, vulkan-intel or nvidia-utils/vulkan-nouveau. Just as with all linux-firmware categories/companies being their own package now, this is probably done to minize unused space/bloat.)
Vanilla Arch Linux, testing repos, with an RX 7800XT.