amd-graphics

No 3d support is available from the host, on all VMware guests

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So I’m running VMware Workstation 12 Player on 16.04 host. And every guest i run complains that “No 3d support is available from the host” and “Hardware graphics acceleration is not available” “Accelerate 3D graphics is checked off in the player. I have AMD RX480 8gig GPU with amd drivers sudo lspci -knn | grep … Read more

How to get OpenCL to work on an AMD GPU with Ubuntu 16.04?

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I have a PC with a: VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XT [Radeon HD 8870M / R9 M270X/M370X] [1002:6821] (rev ff) (prog-if ff) How can I get OpenCL to work on it? I’m not offered a proprietary driver in the Software sources tool, and AFAIK it isn’t supported on 16.04 … Read more

After the upgrade to 17.10 I only get a black screen. How do I fix this?

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I used the upgrade manager to upgrade from 17.04 to 17.10. When I start the machine, I only get a black flickering screen now. I was using the nvidia binary drivers before the upgrade. NOTE: This question (and answer) relate to a specific issue when upgrading from 17.04 to 17.10 while using Nvidia or AMD … Read more

How to install AMD graphic drivers on Ubuntu 18.04

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I had always been a Windows user, But yesterday I downloaded and install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from this page, But I can’t find a way to install AMD graphic drivers, Right now Linux only works in recovery mode, in normal mode it shows a blank purple screen and nothing works, after searching on internet I … Read more

Which graphics cards are supported by the new AMDGPU driver in Ubuntu 16.04?

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The new open source AMDGPU driver pre-installed in Ubuntu 16.04 should support all the “Volcanic Islands” cards out-of-the-box. This means that AMD Radeon R9 285, R9 380/380X and R9 Fury/FuryX graphics cards will be supported out-of-the-box if Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is installed. However I read that the open source AMDGPU driver has an experimental support … Read more

What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?

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I am planning on doing a fresh install of Ubuntu and want to know what is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Driver? There are multiple valid answers for this question spanning over several versions of Ubuntu. For your convenience an index of each below: 14.04 13.04 12.10 12.04 11.10/11.04 etc Answer The … Read more