AMD Radeon rx480 video card driver

[33Nicolas]

Hi, hope this is the right place to post this question.

I'm running Antix and want to install the AMD Radeon rx480 video card, but the only driver provided from AMD is for Ubuntu.

Has anyone successfully installed an RX480 in 2017? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

System: Host: Bueno Kernel: 4.4.10-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.2)
Desktop: MATE 1.8.1 (Gtk 3.14.5-1+deb8u1)
Distro: antiX-16.1_x64-full Berta Cáceres 16 January 2017
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0 v: x.x
BIOS: Award v: F2 date: 11/25/2014
CPU: Octa core AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core (-MCP-) cache: 16384 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 56245
clock speeds: max: 3500 MHz 1: 3500 MHz 2: 1400 MHz 3: 2300 MHz
4: 2300 MHz 5: 2300 MHz 6: 2300 MHz 7: 1700 MHz 8: 1400 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device 67df bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: vesa
Resolution: 1280x1024@0.00hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Device aaf0
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Sound: ALSA v: k4.4.10-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
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IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
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Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 16.9C mobo: N/A
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Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
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[bw123]

Hi, hope this is the right place to post this question.

I'm running Antix...

uh, probably not, but have you tried a debian stretch install?

https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=debian+rx480

[millpond]

The Linux drivers for this exists as metapackages for both Ubuntu and Redhat.

Though the .debs are not created by Ubuntu, its possible that they may default to different directories.

Personally, I would dearchive the RPMs from redhat and run alien on them. It should be able to sort out any major problems, and possibly reset the paths to the correct ones.

From experience I have had problems with with Ubuntu .debs *not clearly labelled as such* from independant (non repo) sources.
If an RPM is not going to work, alien is pretty much smart enough to tell you.

[stevepusser]

I believe the card will also be supported by the open xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu driver in Stretch, and it will probably need firmware-amd-graphics to work correctly. The Pro version from AMD is supposed to have more magic in it, though. There is a possiblity that drivers could be backported to a Jessie base on top of the other Mesa backports in jessie-backports. AntiX 17 will be based on Stretch, but it's only a rough alpha release at the moment.