Guide to update amd drivers

[CryptoMining]

Hey guys,

Is there a guide for the driver update? The script wont work for me for any reason

[HaloGenius]

What are you waiting from drivers update?

[CryptoMining]

I tried 20.xx version and had same hashrateat less mhz,so I could decrease mvolt and save some watts…or increase hashrate at same mhz…but i cant verify in hiveos because i cant update the driver. My card is newer than the 19.30 driver…thats weird…

[HaloGenius]

AMD driver package and AMD drivers builtin in Hive OS not the same things
Builtins AMD driver is mix of 3 things

• AMD linux kernel module (latest from AMD repository)
• AMD OpenCL libs (for best hashrate)
• AMD GPU firmware (from latest AMD drivers package)

[CryptoMining]

So why do i then have better results with official newesr amd driver and how can i reach same results in hiveos…must be an optimization to the driver after latest firmware release of my 5700 card i assume…

[CryptoMining]

I finally got it…updated to 20.20 and got 0.5 mhash per card at same watts.

[wotteam]

Can you tell us how did you manage to update to 20.20 ?

[CryptoMining]

sure…give me some days to write a guide…maybe i make a new topic

[CryptoMining]

guide to update amd drivers to 20.20 which is the latest driver supported by phoenixminer. you can update to 20.30 or 20.40 if you have another miner that supports a newer driver.

boot to maintenance mode with loading drivers
open remote access
cd …
cd hive-drivers-pack
wget http://download.hiveos.farm/drivers/amdgpu-pro-20.20-1089974-ubuntu-18.04.tar.xz
tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-20.20-1089974-ubuntu-18.04.tar.xz
cd amdgpu-pro-20.20-1089974-ubuntu-18.04
amdgpu-uninstall
y
y
after uninstall check dkms status:

dkms status

-> if you have Error, use command:

for i in /var/lib/dkms//[^k]/source; do [ -e “$i” ] || echo “$i”;done

copy the output line directory and remove those directory (or directories if more than one is listed in outut)

rm -r “directory”

reboot

check “dkms status”
should be without errors and without amd driver now

cd …
cd hive-drivers-pack
cd amdgpu-pro-20.20-1089974-ubuntu-18.04
./amdgpu-pro-install -y --opencl=pal --headless

reboot without maintenance mode - done

[mttmining]

Great ! Thanks!

When I run “dkms status”, I get the error “Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.”
And when I browse
/var/lib/dkms/amdgpu
I do see 5.6/ 5.6.5/ 5.6.5.24-1109583/ kernel-5.0.21-201105-hiveos-x86_64@ kernel-5.0.21-hiveos-x86_64@ kernel-5.4.67-hiveos-beta-x86_64@ kernel-5.6.0-hiveos-beta±x86_64@
And withing each directory, I have something like
5.6.0-hiveos-beta+/ source@

Any idea how I can move forward?

Thank you in advance,
Silat

[CryptoMining]

@CryptoMining

-> if you have Error, use command:

for i in /var/lib/dkms/ /[^k] /source; do [ -e “$i” ] || echo “$i”;done

copy the output line directory and remove those directory (or directories if more than one is listed in outut)

rm -r “directory”

it´s one post above. you need to delete the directories that are shown after typing the command. should be clear

[mttmining]

@CryptoMining

for i in /var/lib/dkms/ /[^k] /source; do [ -e “$i” ] || echo “$i”;done

Thank you. I saw that, but when I do “for i in /var/lib/dkms//[^k]/source; do [ -e “$i” ] || echo “$i”;done”
I get :
/var/lib/dkms//[^k]/source
And I am sorry, but I do not know what to do from here…

[U9600]

There’s a typo in the command it should be:

for i in /var/lib/dkms/*/[^k]*/source; do [ -e “$i” ] || echo “$i”;done

[CryptoMining]

damn…didnt see that…copy pasted it into this forum…sorry for that

[johnmila]

i am getting an error where it won’t let me remove the dkms directories i have installed. I have three and I assume I should leave the amd one alone. Please some help would be great

[chopper]

Good stuff! Thanks for taking the time to post this.

[soupn]

hello, thanks for your guide.

i tried to do all steps, had to change “amdgpu-uninstall” command to “amdgpu-pro-uninstall”
and install gets stucked on “Building initial module for 5.4.80-hiveos” and then error.

after restart it says A: 20.40 but can I trust this? my 6900xt still does not be recognized

any help?

[soupn]

just a quick self reply, I made a new boot hdd with fresh install and the problem continued, even if the new amd drivers 20.40 are already in the latest build.

then I made a clean BETA install, and its working…

so… users that have this problem, use the BETA version for now…

[mihyli]

did you tried install 20.50??? i am stuck at “WARNING: amdgpu dkms failed for running kernel”

[soupn]

no, i did not. on Hive GPU Drivers Collection only 20.40

regarding dkms error, see the procedure CryptoMining talked about. I tried all the process but always got an error on kernel.