So I've been trying to install amdgpu-pro drivers for my Radeon VII, but here's what I got.
On Ubuntu 18.04 installing the drivers results in cyclic filesystem checks at boot time. The only way to get rid of this behavior is to boot into recovery mode.
I've read online that Linux kernel 4.18 is required to run the drivers, and so I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.10, which has this version of the kernel installed by default (I had kernel 4.16 in Ubuntu 18.04).
The drivers installation again resulted in an error, and here's the situation I'm in now.
Attempting to uninstall the divers via amdgpu-pro-uninstall results in the following:
Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Package 'amdgpu-core' is not installed, so not removed You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: amdgpu-dkms : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed amdgpu-lib : Depends: amdgpu-core (= 18.50-725072) but it is not going to be installed amdgpu-pro-core : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed glamor-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed gst-omx-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libdrm-amdgpu-common : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libdrm2-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 libegl1-amdgpu-mesa : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libegl1-amdgpu-mesa:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 libgbm1-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libgbm1-amdgpu:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-dri : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed Recommends: libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 but it is not installable or libtxc-dxtn0 but it is not installable libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-dri:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 Recommends: libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386 but it is not installable or libtxc-dxtn0:i386 but it is not installable libglapi-amdgpu-mesa : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libglapi-amdgpu-mesa:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 libllvm7.0-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libllvm7.0-amdgpu:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 libwayland-amdgpu-client0 : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libwayland-amdgpu-client0:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 libwayland-amdgpu-egl1 : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libwayland-amdgpu-egl1:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 libwayland-amdgpu-server0 : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed libwayland-amdgpu-server0:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 mesa-amdgpu-va-drivers : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed mesa-amdgpu-va-drivers:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 mesa-amdgpu-vdpau-drivers : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed mesa-amdgpu-vdpau-drivers:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 wsa-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed wsa-amdgpu:i386 : Depends: amdgpu-core:i386 xserver-xorg-amdgpu-video-amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-core but it is not going to be installed
If I attempt to run sudo apt --fix-broken install, as the system suggests, I get the following:
Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Correcting dependencies... Done The following additional packages will be installed: amdgpu-core The following NEW packages will be installed: amdgpu-core 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 250 not upgraded. 142 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/2 348 B of archives. After this operation, 12,3 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ amdgpu-core 18.50-725072 [2 348 B] (Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5% (Reading database ... 10% (Reading database ... 15% (Reading database ... 20% (Reading database ... 25% (Reading database ... 30% (Reading database ... 35% (Reading database ... 40% (Reading database ... 45% (Reading database ... 50% (Reading database ... 55% (Reading database ... 60% (Reading database ... 65% (Reading database ... 70% (Reading database ... 75% (Reading database ... 80% (Reading database ... 85% (Reading database ... 90% (Reading database ... 95% (Reading database ... 100% (Reading database ... 173362 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../amdgpu-core_18.50-725072_all.deb ... ERROR: This package can only be installed on Ubuntu 18.04. dpkg: error processing archive /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./amdgpu- core_18.50-725072_all.deb (--unpack): new amdgpu-core package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/./amdgpu-core_18.50-725072_all.deb
Manual amdgpu-core installation fails just as well, with an error indicating that that package is only available in Ubuntu 18.04.
My questions are:
Is it possible to fix this kind of behavior?
And, if not,
How, in which version of Ubuntu and Linux kernel is it possible to successfully install amdgpu-pro drivers on a Radeon VII?
If you need any additional logs/outputs of the commands/etc., please ask me to provide them.
Any help would be really appreciated!
Cheers,
