I also don't think I made it clear that mesa is probably better than the proprietary AMD drivers on linux. The same is untrue on NVIDIA.
Apr 5, 2024 15:11:16 z via PLUG-discuss <[email protected]>: > Do you truly need proprietary drivers? That card is one of the best supported > by open source software. So I would just install mesa, which should be easily > installed from your distro's package manager, if it's not installed already. > > Assuming you do need proprietary, maybe try a reboot if you haven't already? > It's giving a missing binary error and sometimes I get those after a kernel > update and not rebooting. > > > > Zack > > Apr 5, 2024 14:43:44 Jim via PLUG-discuss <[email protected]>: > >> Today the Radeon RX580 graphics card I bought arrived. To get the drivers >> for the card, I went here >> >> https://www.amd.com/en/support where I downloaded >> amdgpu-install_6.0.60002-1_all.deb >> >> Next I started following the instructions at >> https://amdgpu-install.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ then I started running into >> problems. >> >> amdgpu-install --vulkan=amdvlk,pro gave me 2 errors: >> >> E: Unable to locate package vulkan-amdgpu-pro and the same for >> vulkan-amdgpu-pro:i386 >> >> I kept going and entered amdgpu-install -y --usecase=workstation >> >> That returned the errors Unable to locate package amdgpu-pro and >> amdgpu-pro-lib32 >> >> With the error messages I figured I'd have problems, but I tried to find out >> if I could use the hardware acceleration so I entered*:* >> >> *ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v h264_amf -c:a copy output.mp4 >> >> That gave me several errors. The first one was [h264_amf @ 0x562e1f855380] >> DLL libamfrt64.so.1 failed to open* >> >> *So I tried sudo updatedb and locate libamfrt64.so.1 which returned nothing. >> That told me the file wasn't there.* >> >> *I tried to transcode a file with Handbrake but it didn't show h264_amf >> among the available codec options.* >> >> *I tried searching for how to install libamfrt64.so.1 but all I got was >> references to steps I already tried. >> * >> *Did I make a mistake somwhere or does AMD need to fix something?* >> >> *Thank for your help.* >> >> *Jim >> * >>
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