Installation problems of amdgpu driver

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#1

Hallo all,

in my newly installed system (Leap 42.2) with AMD Firepro W5100 graphics card, I wanted to install the driver of the graphic card to have OpenGL hardware support (essentially rotating/manipulating 3D geometry). To do this, I downloaded the radeon pro driver for SLED (amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184), but was told to first install the amdgpu-pro-dkms package via Yast, which I did… and, if I remember well, getting a warning that the system could get inconsistent. But since it seemed that I had no choice I installed it anyway.
Anyway, afterwards I installed the driver, getting warnings and error messages. I tried back and forth and managed to get rid of some errors (to be honest I don’t remember what I did exactly), anyway this last warning remained :

(1/1) Removing amdgpu-pro-dkms-16.60-379184.noarch …[error]
Removal of (59)amdgpu-pro-dkms-16.60-379184.noarch(@System) failed:
Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.y31u5P: line 1: dkms: command not found
error: %preun(amdgpu-pro-dkms-0:16.60-379184.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
error: amdgpu-pro-dkms-0:16.60-379184.noarch: erase failed

Notice that I installed dkms previuosly.
I chose to ignore it and it got installed without any further error, but then 1) the lock screen was blocked and 2) at reboot there was no GUI anymore, so I had to manually uninstall the radeon driver, then again the GUI worked. What’s more, when I try to uninstall the amdgpu-pro-dkms package (via Yast) it fails with essentially the same error message as above.
I got stuck there, with my little knowledge of Linux command line/architecture.
Can anyone help me? Is this an issue of the operating system or of the proprietary driver?

Cheers!

#2

Had the same problem some weeks ago, without dkms loaded previously.
I think, i´m no specialist, the script has an error.
What helped me was installing 16.50-xxx instead of 16.60-xxxx.
The error isn´t there in 16.50 and it also rolls back fine to 16.50 with all
components without yast.

#3

Thank you, testi55, for your reply, that’s good news… but do you know where I can get it? Since on the amd site I can’t find where the 16.50 version is…

#4

Download : http://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&jsonp=vglnk_148841767610612&key=552a35ca1eb1421626a0f973ac2a90af&libId=izrpf7bx01001u52000DAjzznt6jp&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techspot.com%2Fdrivers%2Fdriver%2Ffile%2Finformation%2F17900%2F&v=1&out=http%3A%2F%2Ffiles01.tchspt.com%2Ftempd%2Famdgpu-pro-16.50-362463.tar.xz&ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ie%2F&title=AMDGPU-Pro%20Driver%2016.60%20for%20Linux%20Driver%20-%20TechSpot&txt=AMDGPU-Pro%20Driver%2016.50%20for%20Linux%26nbsp%3B2016-12-08

If it don´t works take a look here : http://www.techspot.com/drivers/driver/file/information/17900/

#5

Downloaded the first link and tried to install… but it tells me:
“Unsupported RedHat derivative OS” :frowning:
The second link, too, had the very same file (amdgpu-pro-16.50-362463) attached…

#6

Ouch, had no time to test it.
Hmm, running out of ideas, but if you give me your
e-mail via PN i´ll send you the driver.

#7

Hi
amdgpu-pro-16.50-365149.tar.xz is here;
http://www.gearsongallium.com/download/

You may also need to add the boot option: amdgpu.exp_hw_support=1

#8

Thanks for your help!
I downloaded and installed the driver, and the following warning prompted (more or less the same as before):

The following package is going to be REMOVED:
amdgpu-pro-dkms

1 package to remove.
After the operation, 48.9 MiB will be freed.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y): y
(1/1) Removing amdgpu-pro-dkms-16.60-379184.noarch …[error]
Removal of (59)amdgpu-pro-dkms-16.60-379184.noarch(@System) failed:
Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: Error! There are no instances of module: amdgpu-pro
16.60-379184 located in the DKMS tree.
error: %preun(amdgpu-pro-dkms-0:16.60-379184.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 3
error: amdgpu-pro-dkms-0:16.60-379184.noarch: erase failed

I think it tries to uninstall the previous version, but doesn’t succeed.
if I ignore it, it goes on installing, but with the problems mentioned before (lockscreen not working etc.).
It seems that there is this broken dependency I can’t get rid of …

#9

So you have to fix the rpm database first and delete the wrong entry.
Ask Google.

#10

Ok, here we are again… after trying for some days desperately and bloody-hardly to restore the system through the package manager, I found the most elegant way to restore my system… through the snapshots.
Anyway, the wrong entry is now cancelled. So I tried again to install the driver, now the version 16.50 of it -and that’s the warning I get:

nothing provides dkms >= 1.95 needed by amdgpu-pro-dkms-16.50-365149.noarch

 ] do not install amdgpu-pro-dkms-16.50-365149.noarch

 ] break amdgpu-pro-dkms-16.50-365149.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

… and if I remember well, it was exactly the one that I got from the 16.60 version I chose to ignore. This time I was wise enough not to go on (another lesson learnt;))
Again, is it a driver issue? Or is my system misconfigured? (although it is a very early version soon after installation)… or what?
Please help!

#11

Do you have the packman repo enabled?

For reference I get

# rpm -qi dkms
Name        : dkms
Version     : 2.3
Release     : 2.1
Architecture: noarch
Install Date: Wed 15 Feb 2017 15:45:58 NZDT
Group       : System/Kernel
Size        : 208557
License     : GPL-2.0
Signature   : RSA/SHA1, Thu 02 Feb 2017 21:26:25 NZDT, Key ID 45a1d0671abd1afb
Source RPM  : dkms-2.3-2.1.src.rpm
Build Date  : Thu 02 Feb 2017 10:49:45 NZDT
Build Host  : swkj08.site
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : packman@links2linux.de
Vendor      : http://packman.links2linux.de
URL         : https://github.com/dell/dkms
Summary     : Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework
Description :
This package contains the framework for the Dynamic
Kernel Module Support (DKMS) method for installing
module RPMS as originally developed by Dell.
Distribution: Extra / openSUSE_Leap_42.2
#12

Hallo everybody,
installing dkms, finally it worked. Thanks to all for help and support!

#13

Glad to have been of help!

#14

I’m not sure if this belongs to this topic, but has anyone tried to install amdgpu-pro following official instructions?
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:AMDGPU-PRO

Is is possible that nothing else is needed?

#15

I’ve not yet gotten the official instructions to work successfully. I keep getting “file ‘repomd.xml’ from repository is unsigned” instead of the GPG accept popup, and “Package amdgpu-pro-core is broken , integrity check has failed.” when I ignored the aforementioned warning and attempt to install the amdgpu-pro drivers.