linux drivers

[Tech1diot]

hello, I am trying to get drivers for an older AMD gpu installed on Linux server to run some benchmarks and maybe local ai and I'm having an installation issue. I have attached a screenshot for context
I'm kind of new to Linux and such so any help is appreciated.
(yes I know its an old gpu )

[Dutch_Master]

The problem, and solution, are in the error message: you're using kernel 6.8.0-55 while the driver requires kernel 6.9 as minimum. So, you should either install a newer kernel, or use an older driver compatible with the current kernel. I'd recommend to try in exactly that order.

 

HTH!

[Tech1diot]

10 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

The problem, and solution, are in the error message: you're using kernel 6.8.0-55 while the driver requires kernel 6.9 as minimum. So, you should either install a newer kernel, or use an older driver compatible with the current kernel. I'd recommend to try in exactly that order.

 

HTH!

ran update/upgrade and mainline, im on the most recent kernel from what i can see 

[Eigenvektor]

13 minutes ago, Tech1diot said:

ran update/upgrade and mainline, im on the most recent kernel from what i can see 

Which AMD card is it? The Linux kernel has included open source drivers for AMD for a while and they generally perform well enough.

[Tech1diot]

1 minute ago, Eigenvektor said:

Whixh AMD card is it? The Linux kernel has included open source drivers for AMD for a while and they generally perform well enough.

r5 340x
trying to get drivers installed because Ollama and geekbench both cant detect the card at all. the only evidence its even in the system is in the listed pcie devices and neofetcj\h

[Eigenvektor]

27 minutes ago, Dutch_Master said:

The problem, and solution, are in the error message: you're using kernel 6.8.0-55 while the driver requires kernel 6.9 as minimum

Just noticed, it's not complaining about the kernel, it's complaining about X.Org.

 

What distribution is that? X.Org 6.9 was released in 2013, so it seems you're using a very old version of that distribution. The easiest solution is likely to upgrade to a newer one.

[Dutch_Master]

6 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

X.Org

Yup, my bad.

[Nayr438]

6 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

Just noticed, it's not complaining about the kernel, it's complaining about X.Org.

 

What distribution is that? X.Org 6.9 was released in 2013, so it seems you're using a very old version of that distribution. The easiest solution is likely to upgrade to a newer one.

That's backwards, the version of X on the distro is newer than the version its looking for.
I can't find much on that exact version of the script but it's at least a decade old, newest version of that series was in 2016.

Linux doesn't really have a concept of backwards compatibility, everything is tied to specific versions. In other words that installer wont run and the components it installs likely wont work on any recent versions of Linux.

If sources I have looked at are to be believed then its a Oland GPU which falls under Southern Islands which for the most part is considered unsupported. There is experimental support in amdgpu but its been experimental for years, by default you will fall back to the legacy radeon driver which is even more unsupported. You can refer to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_(SI)_and_Sea_Islands_(CIK)_support


As far as Rocm support which is probably what you want for AI, it pretty much doesn't exist for that card.

Other than providing a display out that card will be mostly useless under linux.

[Eigenvektor]

3 hours ago, Nayr438 said:

That's backwards, the version of X on the distro is newer than the version its looking for.
I can't find much on that exact version of the script but it's at least a decade old, newest version of that series was in 2016.

Maybe I'm misreading the message, but to me it looks like the script identified "XServer _64a", which it doesn't know what to do with.

 

It then says it supports X.Org 6.9 or newer, up to XServer 1.10.

 

The next line says that "XServer _64a" is actually X.org 6.8.

 

What I was trying to say is, if the distro doesn't even have 6.9, which came out in 2013, it has to be very old.

[Nayr438]

33 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Maybe I'm misreading the message, but to me it looks like the script identified "XServer _64a", which it doesn't know what to do with.

 

It then says it supports X.Org 6.9 or newer, up to XServer 1.10.

 

The next line says that "XServer _64a" is actually X.org 6.8.

 

What I was trying to say is, if the distro doesn't even have 6.9, which came out in 2013, it has to be very old.

Its because the way its presented is weird.

The way I read it is XServer _64a on kernel image 6.8.0-55-generic with x86_64-v2 which lines up with Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 LTS, so I'm gonna take a guess and say that's the distro they are running it on which would be xorg-server 21.1

[Tech1diot]

1 hour ago, Nayr438 said:

Its because the way its presented is weird.

The way I read it is XServer _64a on kernel image 6.8.0-55-generic with x86_64-v2 which lines up with Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 LTS, so I'm gonna take a guess and say that's the distro they are running it on which would be xorg-server 21.1

its whatever the most recent version of Ubuntu server LTS is, I downloaded it like 2 months ago as an ISO and 21.1 sounds about right

[Eigenvektor]

17 minutes ago, Tech1diot said:

its whatever the most recent version of Ubuntu server LTS is, I downloaded it like 2 months ago as an ISO and 21.1 sounds about right

Latest LTS is 24.04, meaning it is from April 2024. 21.1 would be from 2021, but Ubuntu only has 04 (April) or 10 (October) releases (except 6.06 )

[Tech1diot]

5 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Latest LTS is 24.04, meaning it is from April 2024. 21.1 would be from 2021, but Ubuntu only has 04 (April) or 10 (October) releases (except 6.06 )

yeah I just checked, my system is on 24.04.1 LTS x66_64