Hello AMD forum!
I'm writing here because I'm a bit out of options otherwise. I got an old office PC (HP Elitedesk 800 TWR) here on which I am supposed to install Rocky Linux 8.8, however; I've run into some difficulties.
The default resolution is 800x600 and therefore unusable. First I played around with xrandr and created a 1920x1080 resolution, but switching to that in the settings didn't actually change the resolution, but just extended it beyond the monitor, with me seeing the same 800x600 window stretched to full screen anyway.
Then I tried installing the 7.0 drivers as per this link but that only resulted in a bunch of errors like this when executing the sudo rpm -Uvh fglrx*.rpm command as told in the Installation Notes:
[florian@dc105162 Downloads]$ sudo rpm -Uvh fglrx*.rpm
[sudo] Password for florian:
Error: Failed dependencies:
compat-libstdc++-33 is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
gcc is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
kernel-devel is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
ld-linux.so.2(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
libX11.so.6 is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
libXext.so.6 is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
libc.so.6 is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by fglrx64_p_i_c-15.201.1151-1.x86_64
...
So what I tried next was to get amdgpu-install to do it's thing. For that I downloaded it from here, as it wasn't installed by default, and changed the baseurl in etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo to baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/5.4.5/rhel/8.7/main/x86_64/ and that part worked without error. Now however running this command requires omitting nomodeset from my grub config and without that the system only boots to black screen and I can't run the actual amdgpu-install command
I tried putting the nomodeset back in in the boot menu and also pressed CTRL + X to save that, but it still doesn't boot correctly now with everything being black screen but I can at least move my cursor that now is just a big "X" symbol
I'll try re-installing the OS again but at this point I am unsure if RL is even suited for the hardware. Is there a way to get the drivers to work? Please help me out
Best
Florian
