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kalenpw
Asked: 2017-05-10 20:37:08 +0800 CST

Recover from AMDGPU-PRO install

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I have been running Xubuntu 16.04 without any errors on just the generic drivers that come installed by default. I decided I wanted to play some video games so I installed the AMDGPU-PRO drivers by following the directions here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx

cd /tmp
tar -Jxvf amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273.tar.xz
cd amdgpu-pro-17.10-414273
./amdgpu-pro-install -y

now when I boot my computer, I see my motherboard startup screen and can access the bios, but if I try and boot the SSD my install is on, I just get a black screen it doesn't appear to be outputting a video signal. I've tried 3 monitors all with the same result, I am not too worried about getting AMDGPU-PRO drivers to work, just with getting my system bootable again. So my quesiton is how can I boot into a state that I can uninstall the drivers?

I've tried SSHing into my desktop from my laptop, but my desktop isn't responding to that.

For anyone looking into this currently, I never solved for 16.04, but a Radeon R9 390 with AMDGPU-PRO is working great on Ubuntu 18.04

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5 Answers

  1. Ran into this question while trying to solve the same problem, I solved it just by uninstalling amd driver.

    • Enter ubuntu Recovery mode while booting in.
    • Enable networking and mount file system using the recovery options.
    • Now "Drop to the root shell prompt".
    • Use amdgpu-pro-uninstall command to uninstall.

    "exit" and everything should be back to normal.

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  2. I had the same issue it is because of the modification to the initrd file in /boot folder. You can recover by reverting to the old initrd file stored in /boot as initrd.dkms.old. I didn't know how to do that, so I just reinstalled the OS.

    Also, the amd install guide said that there is a amdgpu-pro-uninstall script in the extracted folder but there isn't.

    Update if you find a way to reverting to the old initrd or another way to fix the problem apart from re-installation.

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  3. If you are looking for the amdgpu-pro-uninstall script for newer installs it can probably be found in a different directory (as mentioned in the comments), try

    /usr/bin/amdgpu-uninstall
/usr/bin/amdgpu-pro-uninstall
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  4. There is an --uninstall option in amdgpu-pro-install.sh.

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  5. It seems that the amdgpu-pro-uninstall sh file is missing at least in my case However in the amdgpu-install.sh file there is an uninstall function called by dryrun

    if [[ "${OPTIONS[*]}" =~ "dryrun" ]]; then
    echo PACKAGES: ${PACKAGES[*]}
    amdgpu_pro_uninstall
    return 0
fi

    Try /var/opt/amdgpu-pro-local/amdgpu-install --dryrun

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