No Polaris GPU drivers for Ubuntu?

[Okjoek]

I tried loading up Rocket League and though I thought Graphics Drivers were dealt with in the installation of the OS, there was clearly a problem because Rocket League barely ran at all, so I went to the AMD website and under the RX400 series drivers I select Ubuntu 16.04 and it just takes me to a blank page. Does this mean drivers aren't even available for this GPU yet?

[2FA]

Use the "Addition Drivers" tool to see if there are any available in the repositories.

[Okjoek]

4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Use the "Addition Drivers" tool to see if there are any available in the repositories.

I just looked and it said something about 1 proprietary driver and Intel which I would assume means my CPU's iGPU, but that's not what I want.

[Okjoek]

Actually I tried refreshing that blank page I mentioned getting from AMD's website and it gave me this:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx

Not sure if these are the drivers I'm looking for.

[2FA]

1 minute ago, Okjoek said:

I just looked and it said something about 1 proprietary driver and Intel which I would assume means my CPU's iGPU, but that's not what I want.

Guess it's not in the repositories then. I did find a direct download link though: https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-16.40-348864.tar.xz

[2FA]

1 minute ago, Okjoek said:

Actually I tried refreshing that blank page I mentioned getting from AMD's website and it gave me this:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx

Not sure if these are the drivers I'm looking for.

Yeah it is, my link is the right one.

[Okjoek]

59 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Yeah it is, my link is the right one.

I decided to follow AMD's instructions:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx

 

I'm a little lost on the installation step. I extracted the contents of the download to my downloads folder and now it's saying I have to "run the included script (amdgpu-pro-install)", but IDK how to run it, I can open it, but all it is is a text document, what am I supposed to do with that?

[2FA]

The command

 

./amdgpu-pro-install

 

will execute it.

[Okjoek]

6 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

The command

 

./amdgpu-pro-install

 

will execute it.

Oh I actually just restarted the computer after failing to read ahead the AMD guide told me to use this command and then restart:

cd amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184
./amdgpu-pro-install -y

 

"After this you can restart your machine to launch using the new graphics stack."

 

So what does that mean and what do I do next?

[2FA]

7 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Oh I actually just restarted the computer after failing to read ahead the AMD guide told me to use this command and then restart:

cd amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184
./amdgpu-pro-install -y

 

"After this you can restart your machine to launch using the new graphics stack."

 

So what does that mean and what do I do next?

Changes to the directory with the script in it.

Executes the script.

 

Restarting the PC restarts the daemons which is necessary for the new drivers to take over.

[Okjoek]

16 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Changes to the directory with the script in it.

Executes the script.

 

Restarting the PC restarts the daemons which is necessary for the new drivers to take over.

Um I must've done something wrong because I followed all these steps and the drivers weren't installed. Maybe I try again from the top.

[Okjoek]

1 hour ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Changes to the directory with the script in it.

Executes the script.

 

Restarting the PC restarts the daemons which is necessary for the new drivers to take over.

IDK what's wrong. I get to the part where I have to run that script and all I get is this:

 

joseph@joseph-OL2-RACK-DZ77SL:~$ cd amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184
bash: cd: amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184: No such file or directory
joseph@joseph-OL2-RACK-DZ77SL:~$ ./amdgpu-pro-install -y
bash: ./amdgpu-pro-install: No such file or directory
joseph@joseph-OL2-RACK-DZ77SL:~$

 

[2FA]

2 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

IDK what's wrong. I get to the part where I have to run that script and all I get is this:

 

joseph@joseph-OL2-RACK-DZ77SL:~$ cd amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184
bash: cd: amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184: No such file or directory
joseph@joseph-OL2-RACK-DZ77SL:~$ ./amdgpu-pro-install -y
bash: ./amdgpu-pro-install: No such file or directory
joseph@joseph-OL2-RACK-DZ77SL:~$

 

Use the GUI file explorer to find the directorty with the script in it. That's the directory you need to run the command in.

[2FA]

Better yet use this commands to find it.

 

cd /
ls -l | grep amdgpu

 

[Okjoek]

4 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Better yet use this commands to find it.

 

cd /
ls -l | grep amdgpu

 

I'm supposed to put that in the terminal? It didn't seem to do anything when I tried. If you mean the place I extracted the files with the script to it's my downloads folder.

[2FA]

7 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

I'm supposed to put that in the terminal? It didn't seem to do anything when I tried. If you mean the place I extracted the files with the script to it's my downloads folder.

Does a directory called 

 

amdgpu-pro-16.40-348864

 

exist in the Downloads directory? Make sure the directory you are using the cd command is spelled correctly as the install instructions aren't up to date with the latest version which means the numbers will be different.

 

EDIT: which version did you download?

[Okjoek]

9 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Does a directory called 

 

amdgpu-pro-16.40-348864

 

exist in the Downloads directory? Make sure the directory you are using the cd command is spelled correctly as the install instructions aren't up to date with the latest version which means the numbers will be different.

 

EDIT: which version did you download?

Specifically the directory which holds the extracted files within the downloads directory is named:

amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184

 

So no I don't have a directory by that name. I downloaded the latest version from here:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx

 

[2FA]

Ok, I'm just going to lay out all the commands from the start. I feel like this is a user error so doing it my way should work.

 

With a freshly downloaded archive in the Downloads directory, open the terminal fresh. You should be in you home directoy, which is shown with /~.

 

//Make sure you're part of the video group

groups

//If you don't see the "video" group

sudo usermod -a -G video USERNAME

//Log out for this to take effect

//First we want to change to the downloads dir

cd /Downloads

//Now we want to extract the archive here, we can delete the files after the install.

tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184.tar.xz

//Let's check to see if it the new directory was created

ls

//Assuming it's there

cd /amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184

//Now let's see if the script is here

ls -l

//Since it should be in this directory, let's execute it.

./amdgpu-pro-install -y

//Once this finishes, reboot the machine. 

 

[Okjoek]

10 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Ok, I'm just going to lay out all the commands from the start. I feel like this is a user error so doing it my way should work.

 

With a freshly downloaded archive in the Downloads directory, open the terminal fresh. You should be in you home directoy, which is shown with /~.

 

//Make sure you're part of the video group

groups

//If you don't see the "video" group

sudo usermod -a -G video USERNAME

//Log out for this to take effect

//First we want to change to the downloads dir

cd /Downloads

//Now we want to extract the archive here, we can delete the files after the install.

tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184.tar.xz

//Let's check to see if it the new directory was created

ls

//Assuming it's there

cd /amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184

//Now let's see if the script is here

ls -l

//Since it should be in this directory, let's execute it.

./amdgpu-pro-install -y

//Once this finishes, reboot the machine. 

 

The cd /Downloads command says there's no directory by that name.

[2FA]

3 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

The cd /Downloads command says there's no directory by that name.

Use ls and cd into however it's spelt. It's case sensitive.

[Okjoek]

9 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Use ls and cd into however it's spelt. It's case sensitive.

Okay I made it up to

cd /amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184

Which didn't work so I tried

cd amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184
./amdgpu-pro-install -y

from before when I was following the AMD guide and it worked.

 

Now it says

[sudo] password for joseph:

But it won't let me type the password like it's frozen or something.

[2FA]

Just enter your password and press enter, it doesn't give visual feedback for security reasons.

[Okjoek]

28 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Just enter your password and press enter, it doesn't give visual feedback for security reasons.

Okay, at long last the graphics drivers appear to be working. If not for people like you brought together by the LTT community I would have never gotten even this far. I tried Ubuntu because Microsoft has really been scaring me away with price hikes, forced updates, rumors of spying etc.

 

This is all really new to me and I'm already seeing why this sort of thing is having a hard time reaching the masses like Microsoft's windows is. Part way through just these graphics drivers I felt like Plankton after "I followed all of the rules! I even ate 105 black licorice jellybeans through a straw!"

[2FA]

9 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

Okay, at long last the graphics drivers appear to be working. If not for people like you brought together by the LTT community I would have never gotten even this far. I tried Ubuntu because Microsoft has really been scaring me away with price hikes, forced updates, rumors of spying etc.

 

This is all really new to me and I'm already seeing why this sort of thing is having a hard time reaching the masses like Microsoft's windows is. Part way through just these graphics drivers I felt like Plankton after "I followed all of the rules! I even ate 105 black licorice jellybeans through a straw!"

Not a problem. Always happy to help since LTT seems to have a shortage of people experienced with Linux.

 

It can be a bit frustrating when you're new to Linux since everything is case sensitive whereas in Windows, it is not. Another thing is that learning to effectively use the terminal and commands is pretty important. While you can technically get around it by using the GUI, it's usually just faster to use commands for most things.

 

If you ever need any, feel free to ask anytime.