Install ROCm driver on ubuntu 18.04
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You can following the installation manual
The OS used is ubuntu 18.04 with kernel 4.15.0-48-generic
update system
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install libnuma-dev
sudo reboot
Add the ROCm apt repository
wget -qO - http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo 'deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/ xenial main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list
install rocm
sudo apt update
sudo apt install rocm-dkms
sudo apt-get install dkms rock-dkms rocm-opencl-dev
add current user to the video group
sudo usermod -a -G video $LOGNAME
echo 'ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS=1' | sudo tee -a /etc/adduser.conf
echo 'EXTRA_GROUPS=video' | sudo tee -a /etc/adduser.conf
export path in ~/.bashrc
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/rocm/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/rocm/opencl/include
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/rocm/opencl/bin/x86_64
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/rocm/lib:/opt/rocm/opencl/lib/x86_64:/opt/rocm/hip/lib
export AMDAPPSDKROOT=/opt/rocm/opencl
test basic installation
/opt/rocm/bin/rocminfo
/opt/rocm/opencl/bin/x86_64/clinfo
Issue 1 : dkms.conf missing
leiming@pangu:~$ dkms status
amdgpu, 2.3-14, 4.15.0-48-generic, x86_64: installedError! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: does not exist.
find out which amdgpu driver is available
leiming@pangu:/var/lib/dkms/amdgpu/2.3-14/4.15.0-48-generic/x86_64/log$ locate dkms.conf | grep amd
/usr/src/amdgpu-2.0-89/dkms.conf
/usr/src/amdgpu-2.0-89/amd/dkms/dkms.conf
...
add amdgpu to driver
sudo dkms add -m amdgpu -v 2.0-89
Issue 2 : clinfo error
Error Message
leiming@pangu:~$ /opt/rocm/opencl/bin/x86_64/clinfo
ERROR: clGetPlatformIDs(-1001)
check icd file
leiming@pangu:~/files_on_pangu/test_rocm/clARMOR/tests/good_cl_mem$ for i in `ls -1 /etc/OpenCL/vendors`; do echo -n "$i : "; cat /etc/OpenCL/vendors/$i; done
nvidia.icd : libnvidia-opencl.so.1
add the missing amdocl64.icd
echo 'libamdocl64.so' | sudo tee /etc/OpenCL/vendors/amdocl64.icd
check again using clinfo
/opt/rocm/opencl/bin/x86_64/clinfo
It should print the gpu info on the platform.
For additional tests
Please refer to this post : https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/511
References:
- https://rocm.github.io/install.html
- https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/511