If you want to crunch, you need the OpenCL component of the drivers. The PAL version of OpenCL is deprecated and replaced by the ROCr runtime version of OpenCL now.
The documentation I have been using from the Amd.com website driver downloads has not been updated. It still has "pal" in there :(
Tom M
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If you want to crunch, you need the OpenCL component of the drivers. The PAL version of OpenCL is deprecated and replaced by the ROCr runtime version of OpenCL now.
The documentation I have been using from the Amd.com website driver downloads has not been updated. It still has "pal" in there :(
Tom M
Some notes:
keith I got my tower back from repair and the procedure i referenced was WRONG. My apologies to the E@H community for generating garbage.
tom: upon getting my tower back I unwound the AMD download for my specific gpu. the pro-install script was a soft link to the amd_install script. When I looked into that script it stated that PAL was "deprecated" but there were other options like "legacy", "rocm" etc. Also the online documentation references an uninstall script which no longer exists. You can now pass an "uninstall" option to the installation script. So far I have not said anything to help and probably won't. I am about to buy a Win10 disk and move on. I have spend the better part of two days trying to get this to work. Even this link's procedure failed for me. I believe this link to be the latest and greatest AMD procedure. Out of desperation I reinstalled ubuntu 18. Same types of failures. I do not understand what has happened to AMD's support for linux.
If you want to crunch, you need the OpenCL component of the drivers. The PAL version of OpenCL is deprecated and replaced by the ROCr runtime version of OpenCL now.
The documentation I have been using from the Amd.com website driver downloads has not been updated. It still has "pal" in there :(
Tom M
Some notes:
keith I got my tower back from repair and the procedure i referenced was WRONG. My apologies to the E@H community for generating garbage.
tom: upon getting my tower back I unwound the AMD download for my specific gpu. the pro-install script was a soft link to the amd_install script. When I looked into that script it stated that PAL was "deprecated" but there were other options like "legacy", "rocm" etc. Also the online documentation references an uninstall script which no longer exists. You can now pass an "uninstall" option to the installation script. So far I have not said anything to help and probably won't. I am about to buy a Win10 disk and move on. I have spend the better part of two days trying to get this to work. Even this link's procedure failed for me. I believe this link to be the latest and greatest AMD procedure. Out of desperation I reinstalled ubuntu 18. Same types of failures. I do not understand what has happened to AMD's support for linux.
If you disable any updates during a clean install you end up with kernel 5.4 which installs the Amd drivers without error.
See the previous discussion for keeping the kernel from being updated. My current guess is you need to toggle the updates to security only. Security and Recommended just installed 5.8 kernel even though I thought I had that disabled ala~ Keiths instructions.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
If you want to crunch, you need the OpenCL component of the drivers. The PAL version of OpenCL is deprecated and replaced by the ROCr runtime version of OpenCL now.
The documentation I have been using from the Amd.com website driver downloads has not been updated. It still has "pal" in there :(
Tom M
Some notes:
keith I got my tower back from repair and the procedure i referenced was WRONG. My apologies to the E@H community for generating garbage.
tom: upon getting my tower back I unwound the AMD download for my specific gpu. the pro-install script was a soft link to the amd_install script. When I looked into that script it stated that PAL was "deprecated" but there were other options like "legacy", "rocm" etc. Also the online documentation references an uninstall script which no longer exists. You can now pass an "uninstall" option to the installation script. So far I have not said anything to help and probably won't. I am about to buy a Win10 disk and move on. I have spend the better part of two days trying to get this to work. Even this link's procedure failed for me. I believe this link to be the latest and greatest AMD procedure. Out of desperation I reinstalled ubuntu 18. Same types of failures. I do not understand what has happened to AMD's support for linux.
If you disable any updates during a clean install you end up with kernel 5.4 which installs the Amd drivers without error.
See the previous discussion for keeping the kernel from being updated. My current guess is you need to toggle the updates to security only. Security and Recommended just installed 5.8 kernel even though I thought I had that disabled ala~ Keiths instructions.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
amdgpu.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/5.4.0-42-generic/updates/dkms/
amdttm.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/5.4.0-42-generic/updates/dkms/
amdkcl.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/5.4.0-42-generic/updates/dkms/
amd-sched.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/5.4.0-42-generic/updates/dkms/
Running the post_install script:
depmod......
DKMS: install completed.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-42-generic
Setting up amdgpu (20.45-1188099) ...
Setting up libegl1-amdgpu-mesa-drivers:i386 (1:20.1.6-1188099) ...
Setting up g++-9 (9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) ...
Setting up vdpau-driver-all:amd64 (1.3-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up vdpau-driver-all:i386 (1.3-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up g++ (4:9.3.0-1ubuntu2) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/g++ to provide /usr/bin/c++ (c++) in auto mo
de
Setting up build-essential (12.8ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up amdgpu-pro-rocr-opencl (20.45-1188099) ...
Setting up amdgpu-pro (20.45-1188099) ...
Setting up amdgpu-lib32 (20.45-1188099) ...
Setting up amdgpu-pro-lib32 (20.45-1188099) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.136ubuntu6.2) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-42-generic
tom@nvidia-server:~/Downloads/amdgpu-pro-20.45-1188099-ubuntu-20.04$
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
As Keith pointed out, even the installer knows that the pal option is bunk. might as well stop trying to use it and replace it with rocr
Quote:
WARNING: PAL OpenCL has been dropped in favour of ROCr.\nROCr OpenCL will be installed instead of PAL OpenCL.\nPlease advise that this option is deprecated and will be removed in \nfuture releases. Please use '--opencl=rocr' instead.
Well after that gpu install, system wouldn't restart.
So did yet another clean install. Canceled an update that tried to install the 5.8 kernel.
Suceeded in getting Amd drivers installed and E@H processing on two Rx 580 gpus.
For my next magic trick I will see if I can swap out all my Nvidia gpus for the Rx 570's that just showed up.
It would be nice to have a 7 GPU rig with a little more "muscle" in the video cards.... :)
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
I have always believed that AMD produced good products. And still do, But if I were to read through this thread I would avoid AMD on Linux. Like I said earlier I purchased a copy of Win 10, installed it, downloaded the AMD driver package for my specific AMD GPU under Win10, told it to "run it", rebooted, installed Boinc and was online. I would guess 10 mouse clicks (no thinking required). I understand why this is so direct a process. AMD knows that the vast majority of their hardware will probably end up in Windows PCs so that is where they concentrate their efforts for making a simplistic/direct install. I should have spent the money on Win10 earliier in the cycle. It had never been this hard on earlier versions of Ubuntu. crunch, crunch, crunch!!!
Yes, I see you still tried to use pal,legacy and the install script corrected for the rocr opencl component.
Looks like the drivers installed everything without error.
Let us know your progress with adding more cards later.
I haven't seen any comments about any extreme difficulties with installing the current AMD drivers from Michael at Phoronix. He seems to just bang them in in no time at all for his Phoronix test suite runs.
I think the issue is everybody trying to use old, outdated and incorrect installation parameters instead of reading the manuals.
I have always avoided AMD simply because of its history of difficult and edge-case driver permutations.
Nvidia is a very simple install on the other hand.
And from what I read every day in the Linux websites and forums, AMD is putting significant resources toward Linux development. Much more so than Nvidia in comparison.
So I assume that eventually AMD will reach parity in simplicity of driver installs with Nvidia.
At this point in time though . . . things are still in great flux with AMD.
Keith Myers wrote: If you
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The documentation I have been using from the Amd.com website driver downloads has not been updated. It still has "pal" in there :(
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
Tom M wrote: Keith Myers
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Some notes:
keith I got my tower back from repair and the procedure i referenced was WRONG. My apologies to the E@H community for generating garbage.
tom: upon getting my tower back I unwound the AMD download for my specific gpu. the pro-install script was a soft link to the amd_install script. When I looked into that script it stated that PAL was "deprecated" but there were other options like "legacy", "rocm" etc. Also the online documentation references an uninstall script which no longer exists. You can now pass an "uninstall" option to the installation script. So far I have not said anything to help and probably won't. I am about to buy a Win10 disk and move on. I have spend the better part of two days trying to get this to work. Even this link's procedure failed for me. I believe this link to be the latest and greatest AMD procedure. Out of desperation I reinstalled ubuntu 18. Same types of failures. I do not understand what has happened to AMD's support for linux.
robl wrote: Tom M
)
If you disable any updates during a clean install you end up with kernel 5.4 which installs the Amd drivers without error.
See the previous discussion for keeping the kernel from being updated. My current guess is you need to toggle the updates to security only. Security and Recommended just installed 5.8 kernel even though I thought I had that disabled ala~ Keiths instructions.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
robl wrote: Tom M
)
If you disable any updates during a clean install you end up with kernel 5.4 which installs the Amd drivers without error.
See the previous discussion for keeping the kernel from being updated. My current guess is you need to toggle the updates to security only. Security and Recommended just installed 5.8 kernel even though I thought I had that disabled ala~ Keiths instructions.
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
To run a command as
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A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
As Keith pointed out, even
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As Keith pointed out, even the installer knows that the pal option is bunk. might as well stop trying to use it and replace it with rocr
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Well after that gpu install,
)
Well after that gpu install, system wouldn't restart.
So did yet another clean install. Canceled an update that tried to install the 5.8 kernel.
Suceeded in getting Amd drivers installed and E@H processing on two Rx 580 gpus.
For my next magic trick I will see if I can swap out all my Nvidia gpus for the Rx 570's that just showed up.
It would be nice to have a 7 GPU rig with a little more "muscle" in the video cards.... :)
Tom M
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
I have always believed that
)
I have always believed that AMD produced good products. And still do, But if I were to read through this thread I would avoid AMD on Linux. Like I said earlier I purchased a copy of Win 10, installed it, downloaded the AMD driver package for my specific AMD GPU under Win10, told it to "run it", rebooted, installed Boinc and was online. I would guess 10 mouse clicks (no thinking required). I understand why this is so direct a process. AMD knows that the vast majority of their hardware will probably end up in Windows PCs so that is where they concentrate their efforts for making a simplistic/direct install. I should have spent the money on Win10 earliier in the cycle. It had never been this hard on earlier versions of Ubuntu. crunch, crunch, crunch!!!
Yes, I see you still tried to
)
Yes, I see you still tried to use pal,legacy and the install script corrected for the rocr opencl component.
Looks like the drivers installed everything without error.
Let us know your progress with adding more cards later.
I haven't seen any comments about any extreme difficulties with installing the current AMD drivers from Michael at Phoronix. He seems to just bang them in in no time at all for his Phoronix test suite runs.
I think the issue is everybody trying to use old, outdated and incorrect installation parameters instead of reading the manuals.
I have always avoided AMD
)
I have always avoided AMD simply because of its history of difficult and edge-case driver permutations.
Nvidia is a very simple install on the other hand.
And from what I read every day in the Linux websites and forums, AMD is putting significant resources toward Linux development. Much more so than Nvidia in comparison.
So I assume that eventually AMD will reach parity in simplicity of driver installs with Nvidia.
At this point in time though . . . things are still in great flux with AMD.