Where and how can I download graphics drivers for my RX 480? I tried looking at the website, but says that the proprietary drivers only go up to 42.1 and the Radeon 300 series. Should I get the open source drivers? I’m not sure how to install them.
fglrx the old proprietary driver is dead the kernel now has amdgpu driver built in and I think that should be used by default the old radeon driver is still available and a new proprietary driver amdgpu-pro is available. But a lot of older cards have been dropped from support. I run NVIDIA and don’t keep that close a watch on the AMD GPU stuff.
Some references
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU
Note that the last indicates your card needs kernels above 4.7-rc6 so you need to install a newer kernel or move to leap 42.2 runs 4.4.57.xxxx
Amdgpu-pro 16.50.xx is working very well here with RX 480 and all the 4.4.x Kernels, actual 4.4.57.
Version 16.60.xx aborts installation with dkms error, maybe buggy script.
Version 17.10.xx still has problems. You can read this yourself on AMD site
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx
I’m getting stuck on sudo sh amdgpu-pro-preinstall.sh --check. What happens when I get the error saying no directory? I tried skipping that and going into the installation, but it says that cd amdgpu-pro-17.10-401251* ./amdgpu-pro-install -n* is not a command.
You be sure to install the driver 17.10 with the problems? Ok, its up to you.
You can skip the part pre-install.
Read carefully again the parts download, extract and install.
cd amdgpu… is one command.
./amdgpu-pro-install -n is another command.
I have amdgpu-pro 17.10 running against kernel-default 4.9 in openSUSE 42.2
There are notices of failed ATI tests during boot, but all seems to run well. Running Heaven, Valley, and X-Plane 11 all with high settings and getting frame-rates near 70. GPU has never been over 70C. Idling now around 56C. The driver does seem to dislike kernel versions other than 4.9