I am running Ubuntu Mate 17.04 and have a RX580 Video Card.
I tried to install amdgpu-pro drivers using the following website which seems to install without any problems.
I am trying to figure out if the driver is actually working or not and found 2 different commands but they give me different values
dpkg -l amdgpu-pro
shows amdgpu-pro
sudo lshw -c video
shows driver=amdgpu
So am I using the amdgpu or the amdgpu-pro?
dpkg -l amdgpu-pro
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii amdgpu-pro 17.10-414273 amd64 Meta package to install amdgpu Pr
sudo lshw -c video
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: e7
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
resources: irq:29 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:cfe00000-cfffffff ioport:c000(size=256) memory:f9f80000-f9fbffff memory:c0000-dffff
Thanks in Advance Eddie
2 Answers
dpkg indicates that the drivers were installed, but lshw says you are using the old drivers.
using apt purge your original drivers. then reinstall the pro drivers.
finally reboot for the change to take effect.
The following works for me:
$ apt show amdgpu-pro
Package: amdgpu-pro
Version: 20.10-1048554
Priority: optional
Section: metapackages
Maintainer: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) <>
Installed-Size: 17,4 kB
Depends: amdgpu (= 20.10-1048554), amdgpu-pro-core (= 20.10-1048554),
libgl1-amdgpu-pro-glx (= 20.10-1048554), libegl1-amdgpu-pro (= 20.10-1048554),
libgles2-amdgpu-pro (= 20.10-1048554), libglapi1-amdgpu-pro (= 20.10-1048554),
libgl1-amdgpu-pro-ext (= 20.10-1048554), libgl1-amdgpu-pro-dri (= 20.10-1048554),
libgl1-amdgpu-pro-appprofiles (= 20.10-1048554)
Download-Size: 5.328 B
APT-Sources: file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Packages
Description: Meta package to install amdgpu Pro components.
