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