skiline11
August 19th, 2018, 03:39 PM
Hi. My old GPU : Radeon HD6770 broke down, and I bought a new graphic card, Radeon RX 550, because it is cheap card, good enough for multiscreen programming. I remember, that installing Ubuntu with HD6770 was pretty easy. Simply plugged in and work out of the box without installing drivers on ubuntu. Only on windows I had to install drivers from attached cd drive.
This time, it was looking totally different. I plugged card in, and screen didnt show up. In Additional Drivers i didn't show any new drivers to install. I read about that I have to install gpu drivers from LINK1: (https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/radeon-500-series/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-550)www.amd.com/ (http://www.amd.com/)... , but there were a lot of issues with these drivers....
Firstly, I downloaded version for ubuntu 16.04.5 from this website, because that was the software version which I had. Next I tried to follow instructions from LINK2:support.amd.com/... (https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx) . Commands :
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo reboot
- all of them works fine. I made reboot, and after that "dpkg -l amdgpu-pro" show that there is no drivers installed.
So I downloaded drivers from LINK1 , extract files and run :
sudo ./amdgpu-pro-install Almost everything went fine except few errors "W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/* and /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vegam_*" , but I read its OK.
Then "sudo reboot" and I hope then it will work. But unfortunnately I get errors :
"The system is running in low-graphic mode. Your screen, grapic card and input device settings could not be detected correctly. You will need to configure these yourself." I chose "exit to console" and went to terminal.
Going through amd tutorial from LINK2, I show groups. There wasn't video in it so I run
sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME After reboot I got again error : "The system is running in low-graphic mode..."
I chose then "Reconfigure graphics -> Use default (generic) configuration" . Then in groups, the video showed up. Moreover, when I run
dpkg -l amdgpu-pro , finally I saw my amdgpu-pro drivers in it. It looks like this :
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinsta-required (Status, Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================
il amdgpu-pro 18.30-633530 amd64 Meta package to install amdgpu Pro components
But after reboot I still get "The system is running in low-graphic mode ..."
I tried also to reinstall ubuntu desktop with command :
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
reboot but it didnt change anything. Somewhere I find also to reinstall gdm , to make X display manager working. But after
sudo apt-get install gdm
--> and choosing gdm3
sudo service gdm start, the displayed screen was destroyed and it's blinking all the time and sometimes it shows error : "stopping user manager for uid 121"....
I tried also with another ubuntu distributions like 18.04 and 17.04, and all of them shows errors in some of points of the installation , for example frozing with running
sudo apt dist-upgrade
or
sudo ./amdgpu-pro-install
Considering that I didnt have to do anything with my previous graphic card and it was just simple as plug and play, it is very disappointed to me, what amd did with its drivers.
I can return this card and buy new one, if there will not be chance to make it work. Should I consider nvidia gpu's over amd next time? I will read more about it.
I would be grateful if someone would help me.
This time, it was looking totally different. I plugged card in, and screen didnt show up. In Additional Drivers i didn't show any new drivers to install. I read about that I have to install gpu drivers from LINK1: (https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/radeon-500-series/radeon-rx-500-series/radeon-rx-550)www.amd.com/ (http://www.amd.com/)... , but there were a lot of issues with these drivers....
Firstly, I downloaded version for ubuntu 16.04.5 from this website, because that was the software version which I had. Next I tried to follow instructions from LINK2:support.amd.com/... (https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx) . Commands :
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo reboot
- all of them works fine. I made reboot, and after that "dpkg -l amdgpu-pro" show that there is no drivers installed.
So I downloaded drivers from LINK1 , extract files and run :
sudo ./amdgpu-pro-install Almost everything went fine except few errors "W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/* and /lib/firmware/amdgpu/vegam_*" , but I read its OK.
Then "sudo reboot" and I hope then it will work. But unfortunnately I get errors :
"The system is running in low-graphic mode. Your screen, grapic card and input device settings could not be detected correctly. You will need to configure these yourself." I chose "exit to console" and went to terminal.
Going through amd tutorial from LINK2, I show groups. There wasn't video in it so I run
sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME After reboot I got again error : "The system is running in low-graphic mode..."
I chose then "Reconfigure graphics -> Use default (generic) configuration" . Then in groups, the video showed up. Moreover, when I run
dpkg -l amdgpu-pro , finally I saw my amdgpu-pro drivers in it. It looks like this :
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinsta-required (Status, Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================
il amdgpu-pro 18.30-633530 amd64 Meta package to install amdgpu Pro components
But after reboot I still get "The system is running in low-graphic mode ..."
I tried also to reinstall ubuntu desktop with command :
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
reboot but it didnt change anything. Somewhere I find also to reinstall gdm , to make X display manager working. But after
sudo apt-get install gdm
--> and choosing gdm3
sudo service gdm start, the displayed screen was destroyed and it's blinking all the time and sometimes it shows error : "stopping user manager for uid 121"....
I tried also with another ubuntu distributions like 18.04 and 17.04, and all of them shows errors in some of points of the installation , for example frozing with running
sudo apt dist-upgrade
or
sudo ./amdgpu-pro-install
Considering that I didnt have to do anything with my previous graphic card and it was just simple as plug and play, it is very disappointed to me, what amd did with its drivers.
I can return this card and buy new one, if there will not be chance to make it work. Should I consider nvidia gpu's over amd next time? I will read more about it.
I would be grateful if someone would help me.