# 01 — ComfyUI Setup ComfyUI is installed at `~/ComfyUI/` on the Arising Media workstation. Python venv is at `~/ComfyUI/venv/`. ## Starting ComfyUI ```bash tmux new-session -d -s comfyui \ "cd ~/ComfyUI && HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 venv/bin/python main.py --listen 0.0.0.0 --port 8188 2>&1 | tee ~/comfyui.log" ``` **Do NOT use `--cpu`.** The GPU is an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X integrated graphics (gfx1036, RDNA 2 iGPU) with 30,942 MB unified VRAM (shares system RAM). All models fit: FLUX (12GB), Wan 2.2 (3.2GB), T5-XXL (4.6GB). `HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0` is required — gfx1036 (iGPU) is not in the PyTorch ROCm kernel list, but gfx1030 (RDNA 2 dGPU) is compatible. Without the override: `HIP error: invalid device function` on first compute op. Previous SOP said 2GB VRAM — that was wrong. It was reading the dedicated VRAM pool, not the full unified memory PyTorch allocates via ROCm. Verify it's up: ```bash curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" http://localhost:8188/system_stats # should return 200 within 30 seconds ``` Check the log for node load errors: ```bash tmux attach -t comfyui ``` ## Required custom nodes Both installed at `~/ComfyUI/custom_nodes/`: - `ComfyUI-GGUF` — loads GGUF quantized models (FLUX, Wan 2.2) - `ComfyUI-Detail-Daemon` — optional, detail enhancement If `ComfyUI-GGUF` fails to load, check for missing Python packages: ```bash ~/ComfyUI/venv/bin/pip install gguf sqlalchemy ``` ## Known dependency gaps (fix if ComfyUI fails to start) ```bash ~/ComfyUI/venv/bin/pip install sqlalchemy gguf ``` Audio nodes (`nodes_audio.py`, `nodes_lt_audio.py`) will fail to import because `torchaudio` is not installed. This is safe to ignore — audio nodes are not used in this pipeline. ## GPU note GPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X integrated graphics (gfx1036, RDNA 2 iGPU) Unified memory: 30,942 MB available to PyTorch via ROCm (shares system RAM) ```bash # Verify ROCm sees the GPU ~/ComfyUI/venv/bin/python -c "import torch; print(torch.cuda.is_available()); print(torch.cuda.get_device_name(0))" # returns True / AMD Ryzen 9 9950X 16-Core Processor # Verify arch override works HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 ~/ComfyUI/venv/bin/python -c " import torch; x=torch.tensor([1.0]).cuda(); print('GPU OK:', x.device) " ``` gfx1036 requires `HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0` — always set this env var before starting ComfyUI or running any Python that loads GPU tensors. Without it: `HIP error: invalid device function` immediately on first op. ## Model folder structure ``` ~/ComfyUI/models/ ├── unet/ │ └── flux1-schnell-Q8_0.gguf (12GB, FLUX image) ├── clip/ │ ├── clip_l.safetensors (235MB, FLUX CLIP-L) │ ├── t5xxl_fp8_e4m3fn.safetensors (4.6GB, FLUX T5-XXL) │ └── umt5_xxl_fp8_e4m3fn_scaled.safetensors (6.3GB, Wan text encoder) ├── vae/ │ ├── ae.safetensors (108MB, FLUX VAE) │ └── wan_2.1_vae.safetensors (243MB, Wan VAE) └── diffusion_models/ └── Wan2.2-TI2V-5B-Q4_K_M.gguf (3.2GB, Wan 2.2 video) ``` ## Stopping ComfyUI ```bash tmux send-keys -t comfyui C-c # or kill the session: tmux kill-session -t comfyui ```