Black screen on boot after AMDGPU-Pro install (16.04)

Question

I have been having some screen freezing issues on my new Ubuntu 16.04 system, and have been in the troubleshooting process for this issue. I thought it was a graphics driver problem, as I am running an AMD R9 380x card which was supposed to be fully supported by the open-source AMDGPU driver preinstalled with 16.04, but after looking around online, many people seem to have issues with. I thought the answer would be to install the recently released AMDGPU-Pro driver here, following the instructions from here. However, when I reboot I am getting a black screen. Is there an easy way to revert my changes back? My machine was semi-functional with the freezing issue but now with no video at all is useless to me. How to proceed?

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 17 '16 at 01:43

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When your system is booted and you're at the black screen issue the following keyboard command: CTRL-ALT-F2. Login with your account. Then, run the command:

amdgpu-pro-uninstall

This should uninstall the driver and hopefully get you back working again.

edited Jul 17 '16 at 01:43

cat

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answered Jul 16 '16 at 22:42

biscuitsauce

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This may happen if you have installed both nvidia and AMD drivers. You must also remove NVIDIA drivers and restore native ones. This helped me after following the above https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-uninstall-the-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-linux – eliteproxy Dec 26 '21 at 05:08

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 25 '17 at 19:36

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Power off your system.
Power on the system, at the same time press on Shift key.
Select advanced recovery option & enter your password
Then type the command:
```
mount -o remount, rw /    
```
This will give read write permission.
Run command:
```
amdgpu-pro-uninstall    
```
This will uninstall amdgpu-pro from your system.
To shutdown system, run command: poweroff & then power on the system.

edited Mar 25 '17 at 19:36

Kevin Bowen

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answered Mar 25 '17 at 16:43

Amal

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 03 '18 at 09:27

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For me fixed by entering command line with CTRL+F1 then removing the drivers

amdgpu-pro-uninstall

and reinstall using the --px option

./amdgpu-pro-install --px

answered Mar 03 '18 at 09:27

ianaz

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Do you have a reference for the --px option? I can't find documentation on what it does. – kalenpw Dec 14 '18 at 16:54
@kalenpw, The readthedocs page mentions the --px flag in this link. – MrWm Jan 31 '20 at 05:36
Worked perfectly for me, thanks! – Hans Jan 30 '21 at 20:02

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 28 '19 at 05:31

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Press keyboard command: CTRL-ALT-F2 and Login with your account. Then, run the command:

amdgpu-pro-uninstall
sudo apt purge amdgpu*

Even after uninstalling amdgpu pro driver I still got black screen (even i executed the command X -configure), so I go to root shell by the option in recovery mode and removed the remaining driver. I guess it was amdgpu-dkms. I infer that Nvidia user should delete nvidia driver to get rid of black screen.

answered Aug 28 '19 at 05:31

Adeel Raza Azeemi

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Same for me. Problem continued to occur with amdgpu-pro uninstalled, until I manually uninstalled amdgpu-dkms. Running Linux mint 19.3, kernel version 5.4.0-73. Thanks! – Muckee May 24 '21 at 11:01

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 23 '19 at 05:50

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I suggest to never use official AMD drivers with Debian-based distros like Ubuntu.

To remove them, from a terminal, run:

sudo apt remove firmware-amd-graphics
sudo apt remove firmware-linux-nonfree

edited Nov 23 '19 at 05:50

Nmath

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answered Nov 22 '19 at 19:36

user1018518

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