Minisforum AI X1 Pro: ComfyUI – Generate video, images, 3D, audio with AI

Install MiniCconda

To avoid polluting my system, I’ll use conda to install ComfyUI. A conda environment is a directory that contains a specific collection of conda packages that you have installed.

If your system doesn’t have conda, install either Anaconda or Miniconda, the latter is a minimal installer for conda; a small, bootstrap version of Anaconda that includes only conda, Python, the packages they depend on, and a small number of other useful packages, including pip, zlib and a few others.

There’s a package in the AUR for Miniconda, or I can install it from the command-line by downloading the latest version with wget, and running the script.

$ mkdir -p ~/miniconda3
$ wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh -O ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh
$ bash ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh -b -u -p ~/miniconda3
$ rm ~/miniconda3/miniconda.sh

Log into a new shell.

Create Conda Environment

Create a conda environment for ComfyUI. Python 3.13 is recommended.

$ conda create -n comfyui python=3.13

Activate the conda environment:

$ conda activate comfyui

Install ComfyUI and ComfyUI-Manager

Clone the ComfyUI’s GitHub repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI.git

I also want to use the ComfyUI-Manager which needs to be installed into ~/ComfyUI/custom_nodes

Change into the directory:

$ cd ~/ComfyUI/custom_nodes

Clone the ComyUI-Manager’s GitHub repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI-Manager.git

I need to install PyTorch for ROCm.

$ pip install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm6.4

Now I can install the other dependencies.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

It’s best to issue the pip commands in this order, otherwise the pip install -r requirements.txt command will install an incompatible PyTorch that will need uninstalling.

Start ComfyUI. For the Radeon 890M to be used I need to use a specific override.

$ HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.2 python main.py

Other override also work e.g. $ HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.0 python main.py –force-fp32 and HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.0.2 python main.py --force-fp32, but  overrides such as $ HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=11.5.1 python main.py don’t work on my system.

To go to the GUI point a web browser to http://127.0.0.1:8188

Next page: Page 4 – ComfyUI Performance

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction
Page 2 – Installing ROCm under Manjaro
Page 3 – Installing Miniconda and ComfyUI
Page 4 – ComfyUI Performance

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