Yeah, I wouldn't use the proprietary AMD drivers. Jim, undo whatever it is that you did with the amdgpu-pro drivers and install the "xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu" (if you're on debian or a debian based distro, which I assume you are based on the mentioning of a deb package) and restart. That should be all you need.
If you're wanting hardware video acceleration you can also install the following packages:
mesa-va-drivers
vdpau-driver-all
Those are listed on this wiki page:
https://wiki.debian.org/HardwareVideoAcceleration
On Fri, Apr 5, 2024, at 3:29 PM, z via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 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 <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>:
>
>> 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 <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>:
>>
>>> 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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