How do I install the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver?

Question

I'm interested in using the Vulkan backend. I have an RX 480 and the proprietary AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan backend worked on 16.04

After updating to 16.10, I installed the Padoka PPA and ran sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to update to the latest mesa. However, no games launch Vulkan correctly and vulkaninfo reports that it is an invalid command. So, I ran sudo apt-get install vulkan-utils and now vulkaninfo outputs this. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks.

Edit: manually installing mesa-vulkan-drivers with apt gives this output but it is equally useless. Edit 2: Tried Antergos since it comes with the latest mesa out of the box, but that also did not have Vulkan support, even after installing vulkan-icd-loader and radeon-vulkan.

Scott Stensland · Answer 1 · 2016-12-22T03:00:14.520

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You are asking for open source yet did the proprietary drivers give you Vulkan on your AMD GPU ? I am away from my AMD box until new year ... https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-GPU-PRO-Linux-Beta-Driver%E2%80%93Release-Notes.aspx

to install latest open source graphics drivers

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/mesa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo reboot now

as per https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/mesa

then to verify

glxinfo
...
OpenGL Mesa 13.1.0-devel - padoka PPA

edited Dec 22 '16 at 03:00

answered Dec 21 '16 at 01:37

Scott Stensland

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"UPDATE 2016-11-19 All packages have been purged, this PPA was meant for packaging testing only and it has served it's purpose." There's nothing in this PPA. – xicronic Dec 21 '16 at 03:57
see updated answer – Scott Stensland Dec 22 '16 at 02:51
Padoka PPA gives me the latest OpenGL drivers but does not give Vulkan support on my machine. – xicronic Dec 23 '16 at 05:46
Did the AMD drivers render Vulcan ? – Scott Stensland Dec 23 '16 at 05:49
Yes, AMDGPU-PRO Vulkan worked back on 16.04 – xicronic Dec 23 '16 at 05:50

How do I install the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver?

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