I have an R9 380 G4 GC and I'm unable to support the second monitor because Zorin is using a fallback generic driver that is running the card at 33Mhz (painfully slow that...)
I've tried installing the generic debian OEM graphics driver from AMD but I get an error stating that Zorin is not supported.
From what I understand Zorin is not terribly different from a normal debian install.
Is there a way to trick the software into thinking it is installing on a supported system so as to force compatability?
This is the error I get when I try to install using AMD's guide:
sudo ./amdgpu-install
[sudo] password for ******:
Unsupported DEB-based OS: /etc/os-release ID 'zorin'
This is the active controller...
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Tonga PRO [Radeon R9 285/380]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
version: f1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
resources: irq:85 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e01fffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:fcf00000-fcf3ffff memory:c0000-dffff
You can try editing your release file to trick the installer into thinking your release is Debian or Ubuntu
sudo nano /etc/os-release
Find the line with ID=zorin
Change that to ID=debian
Exit and save, then try installing the drivers.
If successful, please immediately go back in and revert your os release to zorin
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-lib (= 21.20-1271047) but it is not going to be installed
amdgpu-lib32 : Depends: amdgpu-lib (= 21.20-1271047) but it is not going to be installed or
amdgpu-lib-hwe (= 21.20-1271047) but it is not installable
Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:2.4.100-1271047)
Depends: libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1:i386 (= 1:2.4.100-1271047)
Depends: libllvm12.0-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:12.0-1271047)
Depends: libwayland-amdgpu-client0:i386 (= 1.18.0-1271047)
Depends: libwayland-amdgpu-server0:i386 (= 1.18.0-1271047)
Depends: libxatracker2-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libgbm1-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libegl1-amdgpu-mesa:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libegl1-amdgpu-mesa-drivers:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-glx:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-dri:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: mesa-amdgpu-va-drivers:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: mesa-amdgpu-vdpau-drivers:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
It looks like I have a wrong depository specified... Not sure how to change it or what to change it too.
Looks like I need to remove Hit 11... somehow.
Ok so I learned how to edit my repository list. and I fixed that, but its still returning an incomplete install error:
~/Downloads/amdgpu-pro-21.20-1271047-ubuntu-20.04$ '/home/sirdll/Downloads/amdgpu-pro-21.20-1271047-ubuntu-20.04/amdgpu-install'
deb [ trusted=yes ] file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/ ./
Get:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ InRelease
Ign:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ InRelease
Get:2 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release [816 B]
Get:2 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release [816 B]
Get:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release.gpg
Ign:3 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Release.gpg
Get:4 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ Packages [129 kB]
Hit:5 http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian stable-xenial InRelease
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Hit:9 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:11 https://packages.zorinos.com/stable bionic InRelease
Get:12 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Hit:13 https://packages.zorinos.com/patches bionic InRelease
Hit:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/zorinos/apps/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:15 https://packages.zorinos.com/apps bionic InRelease
Hit:16 https://packages.zorinos.com/drivers bionic InRelease
Hit:17 https://packages.zorinos.com/premium bionic InRelease
Hit:18 http://ppa.launchpad.net/zorinos/drivers/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:19 http://ppa.launchpad.net/zorinos/patches/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:20 http://ppa.launchpad.net/zorinos/stable/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Fetched 252 kB in 2s (149 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '21.20-1271047' (localhost [all]) for 'amdgpu-pin'
The following NEW packages will be installed:
amdgpu-pin
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/2,836 B of archives.
After this operation, 27.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 file:/var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local ./ amdgpu-pin 21.20-1271047 [2,836 B]
Selecting previously unselected package amdgpu-pin.
(Reading database ... 371760 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../amdgpu-pin_21.20-1271047_all.deb ...
Unpacking amdgpu-pin (21.20-1271047) ...
Setting up amdgpu-pin (21.20-1271047) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
amdgpu : Depends: amdgpu-lib (= 21.20-1271047) but it is not going to be installed
amdgpu-lib32 : Depends: amdgpu-lib (= 21.20-1271047) but it is not going to be installed or
amdgpu-lib-hwe (= 21.20-1271047) but it is not installable
Depends: libdrm2-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:2.4.100-1271047)
Depends: libdrm-amdgpu-amdgpu1:i386 (= 1:2.4.100-1271047)
Depends: libllvm12.0-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:12.0-1271047)
Depends: libwayland-amdgpu-client0:i386 (= 1.18.0-1271047)
Depends: libwayland-amdgpu-server0:i386 (= 1.18.0-1271047)
Depends: libxatracker2-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libgbm1-amdgpu:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libegl1-amdgpu-mesa:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libegl1-amdgpu-mesa-drivers:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-glx:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: libgl1-amdgpu-mesa-dri:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: mesa-amdgpu-va-drivers:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
Depends: mesa-amdgpu-vdpau-drivers:i386 (= 1:21.1.0-1271047)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I'm a m0r0n...
I have a 64bit machine and its telling me that its not installing the 32 bit software....
Imma restart and see where this gets me.
Thanks for the help.
Well the gui and other graphics based software is much more responsive, so thanks for that. still not sure if I was successful in installing.
Still unable to recognize the second monitor.
I'll keep digging.
Well (S)hip (H)igh (I)n (T)ransit...
I just ran lshw -c display
and I got:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Tonga PRO [Radeon R9 285/380]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
version: f1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
resources: irq:85 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e01fffff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:fcf00000-fcf3ffff memory:c0000-dffff
This is exactly the same as before. Not sure why the computer is more responsive. Looks like its still underdriving the clock massively using the generic driver.
Hi and welcome to the forum.
Yours is a classic case of self help if I ever saw one
The good thing is you have a solution and a record of what you did. Sharing that on here may also help others in the future.
@Aravisian I am guilty of doing you a disservice. I somehow missed the second post, which was from you, so MM may only be credited 90% self help. I hope this will not cause him to explode
This is a very good question.
But also not really important - if you prefer the AMDGPU-Pro, you need only install it to use it.
Scroll down to
Proprietary AMDGPU-PRO drivers
You will see a warning stating the the drivers have not been made for Ubuntu 20.04 yet, but that the article would by updated when they are.
The drivers have been made and are available on the download page linked.
The article never got updated.
