Which AMD Driver am i using?

I am running Ubuntu Mate 17.04 and have a RX580 Video Card.

I tried to install amdgpu-pro drivers using the following website which seems to install without any problems.

I am trying to figure out if the driver is actually working or not and found 2 different commands but they give me different values

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dpkg -l amdgpu-pro

shows amdgpu-pro

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sudo lshw -c video

shows driver=amdgpu

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So am I using the amdgpu or the amdgpu-pro?

dpkg -l amdgpu-pro
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii amdgpu-pro 17.10-414273 amd64 Meta package to install amdgpu Pr

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sudo lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible controller product: Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480] vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: e7 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0 resources: irq:29 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:cfe00000-cfffffff ioport:c000(size=256) memory:f9f80000-f9fbffff memory:c0000-dffff

Thanks in Advance Eddie

2 Answers

dpkg indicates that the drivers were installed, but lshw says you are using the old drivers.

using apt purge your original drivers. then reinstall the pro drivers.

finally reboot for the change to take effect.

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The following works for me:

$ apt show amdgpu-pro
Package: amdgpu-pro
Version: 20.10-1048554
Priority: optional
Section: metapackages
Maintainer: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) <>
Installed-Size: 17,4 kB
Depends: amdgpu (= 20.10-1048554), amdgpu-pro-core (= 20.10-1048554), libgl1-amdgpu-pro-glx (= 20.10-1048554), libegl1-amdgpu-pro (= 20.10-1048554), libgles2-amdgpu-pro (= 20.10-1048554), libglapi1-amdgpu-pro (= 20.10-1048554), libgl1-amdgpu-pro-ext (= 20.10-1048554), libgl1-amdgpu-pro-dri (= 20.10-1048554), libgl1-amdgpu-pro-appprofiles (= 20.10-1048554)
Download-Size: 5.328 B
APT-Sources: file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Packages
Description: Meta package to install amdgpu Pro components.

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