Folding Forum

I've been trying to figure this out for weeks on Ubuntu 19.10 prior to the release of Ubuntu 20.04 without any success after following all the instructions I could find.
I was hoping that AMD would release a new driver with the OpenCL drivers for Ubuntu 20.04, but unfortunately this did not happen yet.

So after another attempt I now have it running.

This worked for me:

1. Download AMD Driver for your card from the AMD Support site
2. Extract with tar zvf
3. Edit and replace VERSION_ID with 18.04

4. Run: 5. Edit and replace VERSION_ID with 20.04 again

6. I had to run FAHClient as root by editing You might be able to run it with the default fahclient user by adding the fahclient user to the render group

7. Reboot
8. Then I had an issue with Bad State Detected
9. Reboot

Now my GPU is folding!

This used to work for me with 19.10. However, I'm now running 20.04. This way I can install amdgpu-pro OpenCL, but when I restart the computer, it writes colored noise to the boot screen, and hangs. I've tried it a number of times, but it hangs every time. I can go to terminal mode with ctrl+alt+f4, and remove amdgpu-pro. After that it boots normally again.

The OS check seems to be for amdgpu-pro-pin, which is a 'Meta package to pin a specific amdgpu driver version'. Do we need it?

For me amdgpu-pro isn't working on Ubuntu 20.04 with an RX Vega 64. But because I only need OpenCL, I'm running ROCm 3.3, wich is folding successfully on the GPU. I think ROCm OpenCl works on the 5700, but I haven't tested this myself.

... and how do we convince AMD that they need to solve the problem?