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I have an AMD 5500 XT card which seems to be sort of working but stuggling with higher graphics loads. This is a recent thing. I thought I would update the driver but ran into this issue which prevented loading after a recent system upgrade:

"Deleting module version: 15.201
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new fglrx-core-15.201 DKMS files...
Building for 5.13.0-41-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 5.13.0-41-generic
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/fglrx-core.0.cr
ash'
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.13.0-41-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/fglrx-core/15.201/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package fglrx-core (--configure):
 installed fglrx-core package post-installation script subprocess returned error
 exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fglrx-core"

Any suggestions? Any advice about the really slow graphics at higher loads?

karel
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Roland Burley
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  • So you DID try to install an old driver, unsupported since 7-8 years ago... AMD graphics drivers since then are open-source, already included and installed according to the hardware - radeon for legacy hardware; amdgou for newer graphics -, NO user action required. – ChanganAuto May 19 '22 at 17:38
  • *amdgpu (correction to the above comment) – ChanganAuto May 19 '22 at 22:34
  • Except I am having GPU issues after the last upgrade - none before - so I have what options? Your comment is of no practical use. I need a solution. – Roland Burley May 19 '22 at 23:50
  • Which "last upgrade"? Your other comment - No, I tried to upgrade my firmware and GPU driver. Something obviously went wrong. - suggests this was your doing so please, again, [edit] (one or the other, they're duplicates anyway) and describe EXACTLY what you did. – ChanganAuto May 20 '22 at 00:13
  • I had this question posted in two different ways. A helpful person made a suggestion for the firmware side of the issue which I applied, rebooted and everything seemed to be fine. I checked the purge worked and I checked the firmware had updated. The graphics issue seemed to have totally disappeared. Today I fired up my computer and same issue reappeared. When I move into a high load graphics environment - e.g. Zynga poker - the fans start to pump like mad and the graphics stutter and go very slow. Then I close down the app and everything reverts to calm. I am stumped. – Roland Burley May 21 '22 at 12:27
  • FYI ChanganAuto: everything I had done has been undone and the issue predated my actions anyway. I think it has to be a Ubuntu bug of some kind from a recent update. – Roland Burley May 21 '22 at 12:29
  • lshw -c video returns: *-display UNCLAIMED
    description: VGA compatible controller product: Navi 14 [Radeon RX 5500/5500M / Pro 5500M] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 version: c5 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:c0000000-cfffffff memory:d0000000-d01fffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:fe400000-fe47ffff memory:c0000-dffff     – Roland Burley May 21 '22 at 14:07
  • Def. some kind of bug. I spent most of last night deleting and re-installing the OS - issue persists. – Roland Burley May 22 '22 at 06:56
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    Why do you keep installing fglrx? – Pilot6 May 22 '22 at 08:11
  • Does this answer your question? Upgrade issue: fglrx-core – Pilot6 May 22 '22 at 08:11
  • I don't keep on installing fglrx. I just said, I replaced the entire OS. My understanding is that fglrx is redundant and is not included in current Ubuntu versions. On the suggestion of advice elsewhere I had tried a roll back to an earlier version of the driver because I thought it might help the problem - my bad, my error. I didn't repeat the mistake. I did the purge. In the session at the time it seemed to do the trick but when I re-logged in the problem reappeared. I checked, the purge has worked - no fglrx. – Roland Burley May 22 '22 at 14:30
  • I've been doing some more digging. When my system has low graphic load programmes - e.g email, google - the CPU load is at 10% or so. When I open high graphics load programme - e.g Zynga poker - the load shoots up to 675%+. This can't be normal. Does anyone one have a clue what is going on? I have tested the graphics card, it does not seem to be the issue and this is a recent problem, my system was working fine. – Roland Burley May 30 '22 at 11:16

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Sorted. amdgpu as it comes with 20.04 LTS - even upgraded - ain't cutting it. Download the driver from AMD for 20.04 LTS.

Roland Burley
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