Drivers & Software

[nerdralph]

Downloaded from here:

AMDGPU-PRO Driver for Linux® Release Notes

cleared cache, re-downloaded, and still no luck.

tar -Jtf amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

xz: (stdin): File format not recognized

tar: Child returned status 1

tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

file amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz: data

cksum amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

157597884 108846584 amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

I had no problems with 16.40 and 16.60.

[nerdralph]

Found a copy of 17.30 on a 3rd-party site, and the archive is fine.

cksum amdgpu-pro-17.30-465504.tar.xz

463147372 394216628 amdgpu-pro-17.30-465504.tar.xz

Still would like a good copy of 17.40.

[nerdralph · Accepted solution]

Looks like someone just fixed the file.

cksum amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

561748275 361491288 amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

[amdmatt]

glad to see that you have found the correct answer to your question.  In order to help others with a similar problem to find this answer quickly, we have locked the discussion to keep it focused on the issue you reported.

[scoobs]

The file still is corrupt I can't extract it. Have downloaded multiple times from different browsers.

cksum amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

2606863959 129469272 amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

This is my first AMD\ATI card in a long time and it's not starting out well

[nerdralph]

I just checked, and its back to the same ~100MB corrupt file.  I still have the ~ 350MB good one on my hard drive, but it looks like AMD has a problem with how their download files are published.  My guess is someone manually fixed it after I posted about the issue, and some time later the corrupt file got refreshed from whatever repository AMD uses to manage their download files.

[star6]

Tried to download, provided link is corrupt, file can not be extracted.  Poor quality guys.

[scoobs]

The beta 17.40 driver worked for me

AMDGPU-Pro Beta Mining Driver for Linux® Release Notes

[atlantonius]

So i think the problem most people are having is that they are not familiar with wget and how AMD's website is designed.  Their downloads require a referer, so if you try to download them directly without specifying such, you'll get a partial, very small file.

I was just able to download 17.40-492261 without a problem and then extract it. (I placed it in /tmp)

~$ wget -O /tmp/amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz --referer=http://support.amd.com https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

With all that said, I personally don't agree with the download referer requirement AMD has implemented, but blame their legal team for putting up such a dinosaur requirement.

Also, below is an MD5Sum in case anyone wants to verify they got a complete download.

~$ md5sum /tmp/amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

eb677fbd04ddaff45839646b89aa42d6  /tmp/amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

[nerdralph]

Already knew about the referer nuisance.  If you use wget without a referrer, you just get a small file (error page), not multiple megabytes as was happening with the corrupt driver file.

As of 2017-12-13 I'm still seeing the corrupt file when I try to re-download it.  If others are getting the good version, perhaps it is a CDN issue (AMD appears to use Akamai).

wget --referer=http://support.amd.com https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

--2017-12-13 21:46:43--  https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ubuntu/amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz

Resolving www2.ati.com (www2.ati.com)... 23.46.61.116

Connecting to www2.ati.com (www2.ati.com)|23.46.61.116|:443... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 108846584 (104M) [application/x-tar]

Saving to: ‘amdgpu-pro-17.40-492261.tar.xz’