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I have amd kaveri 7850k chipset, there is a beta driver but having problems finding it can anyone link it and explain how to install it?

*Ubuntu 16.04 is my OS

muru
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Pablo
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  • There are two right on AMDs website http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release-Notes.aspx and http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/pages/latest-linux-beta-driver.aspx Are these what you are looking for? – Mark Kirby May 30 '16 at 17:48
  • Beta driver? The open source driver included in 16.04 should work fine for graphics. AMD have not released a beta version of the GPU Pro drivers for 16.04 yet. The microcode firmware is for some CPU features I think, and not for the GPU. – dobey May 30 '16 at 17:48
  • Thanks the link worked, also Beta driver is there for GPUs and APUs – Pablo May 30 '16 at 18:08
  • Now I need to install it, any help? – Pablo May 30 '16 at 18:12
  • What link did you use of the two? – Mark Kirby May 30 '16 at 18:21
  • Second one: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Beta-Driver-for-Vulkan-Release-Notes.aspx – Pablo May 30 '16 at 18:53
  • I am going to try a do an answer for you but I don't have AMD so I can't test it and if you face issues, I may not be able to fix them but we can try. – Mark Kirby May 30 '16 at 19:03
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    Also read this http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/ubuntu-drops-amd-catalyst-fglrx-driver-16-04 – Rinzwind May 30 '16 at 19:37

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Make a temporary directory in your /home folder

mkdir ~/tmp

Download the driver here and put it in that directory

Now extract it

cd ~/tmp 
tar -xf amdgpu-pro_16.20.3-294842.tar.xz

Change to the extracted directory

cd amdgpu-pro-driver

Now run the install script

./amdgpu-pro-install

Follow any instructions given and this will install the driver.

Ensure that your user account is a member of the "video" group prior to using the vulkan driver. You can find which groups you are a member of with the following command:

groups

To add yourself to the video group you will need the sudo password and can use the following command:

sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME

You will need to log out and in again to activate this change.

That should be it, reboot and you will be using the beta driver.

You can delete the ~/tmp folder we created in the first step.

If for any reason you wish to remove the AMD GPU-PRO graphics stack you can do this using the uninstallation script which was part of the installation and is present in your path. From the command prompt enter the following command:

amdgpu-pro-uninstall

Source

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  • Don't accept the answer if it does not work, I have thousands of rep, I care more about it being right that getting rep. – Mark Kirby May 30 '16 at 19:30
  • It installed, but after login and password the screen is just the background image, I do have access to terminal with right click what can I do next – Pablo May 30 '16 at 19:58
  • Try the solution here http://askubuntu.com/questions/475296/unity-launcher-and-top-panel-disappeared-in-14-04 seems like your computer is working but Unity did not load correctly. As the drivers are only beta, they may never work very well. – Mark Kirby May 30 '16 at 20:03
  • Ok, hey does installing gnome shell might work what do u think – Pablo May 30 '16 at 20:11
  • I don't know, you can try, it won't hurt and Unity can be temperamental at times. Did that solution for fixing Unity not work? – Mark Kirby May 30 '16 at 20:14
  • Trying it, need to reboot into ubuntu thanks for everything – Pablo May 30 '16 at 20:16
  • everything worked except this command sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME – Pablo Jun 08 '16 at 16:29
  • How did it not work? What happend? There won't be any output. @Pablo – Mark Kirby Jun 08 '16 at 16:33
  • couldn't make the group video, retried and its a mess wont recommend to try the driver – Pablo Jun 13 '16 at 01:50