I have an HD 7870 and I read it is the exact same card with the R9 270X, just with another name. I want to upgrade from 14.04, but the AMDGPU PRO does not support the 7870. However, it supports the R9 290X. Will it work?
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The new open source AMDGPU driver pre-installed in Ubuntu 16.04 should support all the "Volcanic Islands" cards out-of-the-box. This means that AMD Radeon R9 285, R9 380/380X and R9 Fury/FuryX graphics cards will be supported out-of-the-box if Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is installed.  However I read that the open source AMDGPU driver has an experimental support for the "Sea Islands" graphics cards (HD7790, R7 260, R9 290, R7 360, R9 390). Is this support enabled by default on Ubuntu 16.04, or will these graphics cards use the Radeon driver?  Thanks
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In the  of Ubuntu, I see that both the 14.04.1 and the 14.04 versions are offered for download. Do I need them both? That is, is 14.04 a prerequisite for installing 14.04.1? Or can I just download the last version ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso?
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My laptop diagnostic shows several pre-fails and has other issues so I am urgently shopping for a new laptop, my second using Ubuntu. I need a laptop with good graphics capabilities and have come across a couple with the Nvidia GeForce 840M graphics card. In other words, I do not have a problem now and am hoping to avoid one.  My research on Ask Ubuntu and elsewhere shows that there have been some bugs with Ubuntu 14.04 and Nvidia drivers (not just for the 840M driver) but that fixes were made or a least suggested. But I have seen nothing definitive, e.g. the Ubuntu Certification for laptops is barely starting with 14.04.  I am about to spend a 1000 dollars and would love a little more assurance before I proceed -- my understanding is that a Live CD cannot perform a full simulation. Are there easy-to-recognize concrete factors which make compatibility (more) predictable, such as specific models of computer and their processors?  I am a considering a  with an Intel i5 4200M  and an  with an Intel i7 4700HQ. Both use an Nvidia 840M graphics card.
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I tried to install amdgpu-pro in Zesty but encountered an error when building the kernel module:  Setting up amdgpu-pro-dkms (16.60-379184) ... Loading new amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184 DKMS files... Building for 4.10.0-13-generic Building for architecture x86_64 Building initial module for 4.10.0-13-generic ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-4.10.0-13-generic is not supported Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.10.0-13-generic (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/make.log for more information.   The contents of /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/make.log are as follows:  DKMS make.log for amdgpu-pro-16.60-379184 for kernel 4.10.0-13-generic (x86_64) Thu Apr 13 15:09:27 PDT 2017 make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-13-generic'   LD      /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/built-in.o   LD      /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/amd/amdgpu/built-in.o   CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.o In file included from /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/amd/amdgpu/../backport/include/kcl/kcl_amdgpu.h:5:0,                  from /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/amd/amdgpu/../backport/backport.h:5,                  from &lt;command-line&gt;:0: /var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/amd/amdgpu/../amdgpu/amdgpu.h:37:25: fatal error: linux/fence.h: No such file or directory  #include &lt;linux/fence.h&gt;                          ^ compilation terminated. scripts/Makefile.build:294: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.o' failed make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.o] Error 1 scripts/Makefile.build:567: recipe for target '/var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/amd/amdgpu' failed make[1]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build/amd/amdgpu] Error 2 Makefile:1524: recipe for target '_module_/var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build' failed make: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/amdgpu-pro/16.60-379184/build] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.10.0-13-generic'   How do I get the driver working in 17.04?
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Does my machine support ? I found  where the list contains the required hardware requirements. Please find the below screenshots of few of my machine. Does any one of the below support OpenCL?  Screenshot from machine 1:    Screenshot from machine 2:    Screenshot from machine 3:    Does any of my three machines support OpenCL? Or do all the three support OpenCL? I am trying to run a basic OpenCL face-detection program and am failing. I have posted Stack Overflow question  regarding the same.  After running , the "1st machine" is of type GPU 1: Intel HD Graphics 2000. Does it support OpenCL?
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I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 and I notice that in the "Additional Drivers" tab of "Software &amp; Updates", the latest versions of NVIDIA drivers I can install are   version 367.57 from nvidia-367 (proprietary) version 370.28 from nvidia-370 (open source)   Aside from the fact that I don't know what "proprietary" and "open source" mean here, I also don't see an option to select the driver version based on my actual graphics card. I'm using GTX 1080 and the current Long Lived Branch version is 375.20; will the Ubuntu graphics PPA be updated eventually, or will I have to manually install 375?
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I was wondering if there now (as of Blender 2.78c) a way to use GPU rendering on an Intel Iris Pro Graphics Card. I tried to get it to work, and successfully got the GPU to show up in the System User preferences, and in the render tab, but when I try to actually render something, the message at the top says LOADING RENDER KERNELS (MAY TAKE A FEW MINUTES THE FIRST TIME). However, it seems to take more than a few minutes. This message never goes away and I need to force quit blender to stop it. Any way to properly do it?
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I'm going through CUDA's documentation and following this page () to see whether or not my machine and distro can support it. To verify if i have a CUDA capable GPU, i had to enter this command      lspci | grep -i nvidia   upon entering this command i got no result, and i followed it up by entering this      update-pciids   ^^i got the following result upon entering the aforementioned command      update-pciids: /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.new is read-only   any ideas on how to verify the compatibility of my card with CUDA?
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I got a integrated GD, which is Intel, and another discrete GD, AMD Radeon 6490 HD I am using ubuntu 11.10  1st, when I boot into Windows, my GD is indeed AMD Radeon 6490 HD, but when I boot into Ubuntu, it shows that I have AMD Radeon 6470 instead.  2nd, I try most methods only to install driver for my AMD/ATI graphic card. First by jockey(fail, boot with unity 2D instead) and install manually (fail, boot into blank screen).   3rd, I give up using the AMD/ATI graphic card. Then I got a new problem. Both my graphic cards are powered on on startup, which causes my laptop to over heat.   I view the content of /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch  0:DIS: :Pwr:0000:01:00.0 1:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0   Then I switch off IGD using echo OFF &gt; /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch and I get  0:DIS: :Off:0000:01:00.0 1:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:02.0   But after I reboot, the discrete graphic card is powered on again. How to solve this?
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Hello I just got the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 (blackmagic eGPU Pro) yesterday  plugged it in to my brand new Mac mini (Mojave), it shows up in the menubar and as an alternative as a render engine,. My question is, can I use this eGPU for cycles renders? (Blender 2.80)  Very grateful for your responses.
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On the  there is a download link for ubuntu-18.04-live-server-amd64.iso, and on the  there is a download link for ubuntu-18.04-server-amd64.iso. Before 18.04, there is only a server version. What is the difference between these 2 images?
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Since I have an onboard Intel graphics card, and a ATI Radeon display controller, I was wondering if I could switch between the two as my graphics in use, as I could in 14.04 LTS through ATI Catalyst?  16.04 LTS is using the onboard, and the hardware listing lists ATI as well as display controler, but not in use. Additional drivers don't provide anything.   So is AMDGPU being used, or is ATI disabled?  lspci:  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09) 04:00.0 Display controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Venus XTX [Radeon HD 8890M / R9 M275X/M375X] (rev ff)   lspci -nnk | grep VGA -A1  00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [8086:1616] (rev 09)     Subsystem: Lenovo Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [17aa:3824]
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Until now until Blender 2.83.4 my GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X 12288 MB is recognized via CUDA. With Blender 2.90 and Blender 2.90.1 no GPU is seen, also not under CUDA. What is wrong? I'am therefor still working with 2.83.4 My computer Mac Pro (mid 2012) 2 x 3,46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon / 96 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 - Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6
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I have an acer laptop with these GPUs: - GPU0: Intel HD Graphics 4000 (M) (obviously integrated) - GPU1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M  I uninstalled all nvidia-drivers because I was experiencing a lot of bugs and I read here and there that they are not supposed to work with Optimus without either bumblebee or nvidia-prime.  As far as I understand, nvidia-prime would allow me to have the NVidia GPU always on. And to choose between that or always off (i.e. always use Intel)  So now I installed nvidia-prime with  sudo apt-get install nvidia-prime   What am I supposed to do now?  I thought nvidia-prime provided a graphical interface which would allow me to choose which graphic card to use, and even to install the needed nvidia drivers.  By typing "nvidia" in the dash, nothing shows up. From a terminal, the only command available starting with "nvidia" is "nvidia-detect" which just prints "none".  So, I installed nvidia-prime, how do I use it?
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I am using the  ppa. I got an update dialogue today which stated that I can update my nvidia driver to 367.18 (~gpu16.04.6). I started the update just like every time, but it failed with  Failed to get unit file state for var-lib-snapd-lib-gl.mount  After rebooting, my graphics driver was broken and I was forced to go into recovery mode.  As usually when my Nvidia driver breaks, I just uninstall it with  sudo apt purge nvidia* to reinstall it clean afterwards.   Doing this in recovery mode uninstalled all except the nvidia-opencl-icd-367 package which failed with the error above.   Trying to manually uninstall this package ends with these errors:       Update @20160605 - Solution:  Following Videonauth's answer below solves the issue. Please go through all the steps and make sure to reboot after removing everything of NVIDIA via sudo apt purge nvidia* succeeded without issues and after reinstalling the driver via sudo apt install nvidia-367.  This shall get your driver working again.   If this does not help, try to manually remove all old xorg configs sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf* &amp;&amp; sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reinstall the driver again sudo apt install nvidia-367 --reinstall.  If this still does not let you log back in (Typical error: Logins screen --> password has been entered, enter pressed --> goes back to login screen) try completely removing your Nvidia driver again from by switching into text console from the logscreen with Ctrl+Alt+F1, login with you account name and password, donwload the appropriate driver for your graphics card from  within console, stop lightdm:  sudo service lightdm  Install Nvidia's binary driver using sudo ./NVIDIA-VERSION...  and reboot system:  sudo reboot now  System:  Ubuntu 16.04 64bit  Linux 4.4.0-22
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In the settings I can't choose another device to render other than the CPU.     According to the blender wiki the GPUs "with a GCN Architecture superior or equal to 2.0 are supported".     And as I understand my GPU (R9 270) should be supported, according to this table from wikipedia(and has GCN 2.0 and up):   Or am I wrong and my GPU isn't actually supported? :(   GPU:    R9 270 (latest drivers)  OpenCL version: 22.19  Blender version: 2.79
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Is there any tutorial to install CUDA on Ubuntu 18.04?  The instructions on the Nvidia website for 17.04 and 16.04 do not work for 18.04.  I get a message telling me to reboot then re-run the installer.  However when I do this I get that same message again.