Install Ubuntu 20.04 on a Pi 4 or tower/desktop PC
6 Mar 2020 15:32:47 UTC
Topic 220956
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I have done this in an around about way. I had burned 20.04 to an sd card, inserted the card and booted. Nothing. Short version of the story was to burn Ubuntu 19.10 to an sd card. Insert the card and boot the Pi4 then upgrade from 19.10 to 20.04. Why did I do this? I thought I had read that Ubuntu 20 had built in support/drivers for the Pi 4's onboard GPUs. Not true so a lot of time and effort was lost. If anyone wants the upgrade procedure for going 19.10 to 20.04 let me know and I will post it. It is not that direct or at least I did not think so.
official release date of
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official release date of 4/23/20 is quickly approaching for ubuntu 20.04. you can read about it here: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/10/ubuntu-20-04-release-features
very close to 4/23 the
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very close to 4/23 the release date for ubuntu 20.04
I have just completed the
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I have just completed the installation of Ubuntu 20.04 on a laptop. It went quite well although there is a point in the "installation" process where it seems to hang. Just be patient it does take a while. You will also note that your wifi is disconnected again just wait until the entire upgrade process is complete.
During boot the computer's Logo (Dell in my case) now appears with "Ubuntu" on the splash screen. As usual the boys and girls at Ubuntu have done an outstanding job!!!
I changed the thread title
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I changed the thread title because I just hit a major speed bump with Ubuntu 20.04. When installing 20.04 on a tower machine running an Amd GPU I could not get any work. Looking around I discovered that the machine was not identifying its onboard GPU. This was because I was forced to do a complete rebuild and that meant reinstalling OpenCl support. I downloaded the new Amd Drivers but the result was a statement to the effect that they might not be compatible with "this" OS Ubuntu 20.04. When I looked at my list of computers the tower correctly identified the Ubuntu OS but no GPU was listed. Further looking on the internet revealed that more support was going to be needed. Apparently AMD has not caught up with Ubuntu 20.04. Not sure how this will effect Nvidia GPUs on Ubuntu20.04
Dang. Sorry to hear that you
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Dang. Sorry to hear that you got caught out. Thanks for the heads up, though. Because AMD just released their new Ubuntu driver package 20.1 earlier this week, I was sure they did that in prep of Ubuntu 20.04. I am holding off upgrading my 18.04 LTS until the 20.04 point distribution sometime in July. Hopefully OpenCL support will be sorted out by then.
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
My brain is a sponge. I have
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My brain is a sponge. I have tried or at least i think I did to use these drivers from the AMD package 20.1. Most seem to be for Windows but I tried the ones for 64 bit Ubuntu. No go. I am now finding it equally hard to go back to ubuntu 19 with amd driver support. Done for today. Tomorrow is another opportunity.
And do not rush into upgrading your 18.04 LTS.
I recovered from yesterday's
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I recovered from yesterday's SNAFU. Thought I had deleted Ubuntu 19 and installed Ubuntu 20. Noooo. I had deleted 18. I had a copy of the driver support for Ubuntu 18 on another pc. All is back to normal. I won't be jumping on a new OS release going forward until I know that there is graphics/driver support. Lost a day of processing. Oh well.
robl wrote:I recovered from
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I really dislike that Ubuntu makes it sooo difficult to make AMD/ATI gpu's work on their machines...why did they just drop us for software that won't crunch? If I have an Nvidia gpu Ubuntu now loads the newest drivers for it and I can crunch away. You'd also think one of the Ubuntu clones would pick it up but nope I haven't found one yet, it's like AMD/ATI pissed off somebody and they said F you and they are done with them.
The older versions used to ask if you wanted 3rd party software loaded, and the new ones do sorta they just choose it and say 'is this okay' where as before you had to manually select it to happen...this is for Nvidia drivers.
I revisited the AMD driver
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I revisited the AMD driver website and they stated that AMD propriety drivers are not yet available for Ubuntu 20 so it seems to me to be more of a problem for AMD then for Ubuntu.
Also AMD has detailed installation procedures for their drivers. The hardest part is to: 1. correctly identify your AMD card and 2. to properly identify the AMD driver to download from the AMD website. There are many to choose from and should you choose the wrong one then ....
robl wrote:IThe hardest part
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No automated detection tool that finds the right driver(s)?