Quick Start (Linux)#

Applies to Linux

2023-05-25

8 min read time

Install Prerequisites#

The driver package uses DKMS to build the amdgpu-dkms module (driver) for the installed kernels. This requires the Linux kernel headers and modules to be installed for each. Usually these are automatically installed with the kernel, but if you have multiple kernel versions or you have downloaded the kernel images and not the kernel meta-packages then they must be manually installed.

To install for the currently active kernel run the command corresponding to your distribution.

sudo apt install "linux-headers-$(uname -r)" "linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)"

sudo yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel

sudo zypper install kernel-default-devel

Add Repositories#

1. Download and convert the package signing key

# Make the directory if it doesn't exist yet.
# This location is recommended by the distribution maintainers.
sudo mkdir --parents --mode=0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
# Download the key, convert the signing-key to a full
# keyring required by apt and store in the keyring directory
wget https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key -O - | \
    gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/rocm.gpg > /dev/null

2. Add the repositories

# Kernel driver repository for focal
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu.list <<'EOF'
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/rocm.gpg] https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/latest/ubuntu focal main
EOF
# ROCm repository for focal
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list <<'EOF'
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/rocm.gpg] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian focal main
EOF

# Kernel driver repository for jammy
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu.list <<'EOF'
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/rocm.gpg] https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/latest/ubuntu jammy main
EOF
# ROCm repository for jammy
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list <<'EOF'
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/rocm.gpg] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian jammy main
echo -e 'Package: *\nPin: release o=repo.radeon.com\nPin-Priority: 600' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/rocm-pin-600
EOF

3. Update the list of packages

sudo apt update

1. Add the repositories

# Add the amdgpu module repository for RHEL 8.6
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo <<'EOF'
[amdgpu]
name=amdgpu
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/latest/rhel/8.6/main/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
# Add the rocm repository for RHEL 8
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<'EOF'
[rocm]
name=rocm
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rhel8/latest/main
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF

# Add the amdgpu module repository for RHEL 8.7
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo <<'EOF'
[amdgpu]
name=amdgpu
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/latest/rhel/8.7/main/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
# Add the rocm repository for RHEL 8
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<'EOF'
[rocm]
name=rocm
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rhel8/latest/main
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF

# Add the amdgpu module repository for RHEL 9.1
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/amdgpu.repo <<'EOF'
[amdgpu]
name=amdgpu
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/latest/rhel/9.1/main/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
# Add the rocm repository for RHEL 9
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/rocm.repo <<'EOF'
[rocm]
name=rocm
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rhel9/latest/main
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF

2. Clean cached files from enabled repositories

sudo yum clean all

1. Add the repositories

# Add the amdgpu module repository for SLES 15.4
sudo tee /etc/zypp/repos.d/amdgpu.repo <<'EOF'
[amdgpu]
name=amdgpu
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/latest/sle/15.4/main/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF
# Add the rocm repository for SLES
sudo tee /etc/zypp/repos.d/rocm.repo <<'EOF'
[rocm]
name=rocm
baseurl=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/zyp/zypper
enabled=1
priority=50
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key
EOF

2. Update the new repository

sudo zypper ref

Install Drivers#

Install the amdgpu-dkms kernel module, aka driver, on your system.

sudo apt install amdgpu-dkms

sudo yum install amdgpu-dkms

sudo zypper install amdgpu-dkms

Install ROCm Runtimes#

Install the rocm-hip-libraries meta-package. This contains dependencies for most common ROCm applications.

sudo apt install rocm-hip-libraries

sudo yum install rocm-hip-libraries

sudo zypper install rocm-hip-libraries

Reboot the system#

Loading the new driver requires a reboot of the system.

sudo reboot