Sorry for the lack of updates. I’ve spent all my free time the last 2 days trying to get openSUSE Leap 42.2 installed on my main computer to no avail.
My AMD Radeon RX 480 is unsupported and simply will not work with openSUSE Leap 42.2. AMD only has drivers for Red Hat and Ubuntu. I’ve tried every hack, every tip, every suggestion I could find and some I made up on my own.
I tried Kubuntu 16.10. My graphics card worked out of the box. But, Kubuntu 16.10 is quite probably the worst KDE implementation I have ever seen.
Fedora 25 gets released in a few days so I may give that a shot. Linux Mint 18.1 is out soon too.
I’ll keep my ears open to see if someone gets my card working under openSUSE Leap 42.2 but I’m not all that hopeful. Doesn’t seem anyone really cares.
Oh openSUSE…
I would love to use Linux. But for me, and I bet most of the general population, it’s still not feasible.
I game a lot…little support for that from Linux. Drivers was always the biggest issue for me so I stayed away.
In the past installation of so many things was just clumsy to me. You had to do a lot of research to install this to make that work to make it work. For a server used for gaming back in the day Linux was definitely the way to go for stability and the server was easy to install..
Nowadays windows I believe has that sorted out and are the best for gaming servers as well as personal computers.
To me it’s what suit your needs. Can you live with ones faults vs the others.
My 2 cents again…
For a better KDE experience, try Linux Mint KDE. (www.linuxmint.com)
For something closer to WIN7 experience, try Linux Mint XFCE or MX Linux (mxlinux.org)
Hi Eric,
support for that card started on kernel version 4.7. Leap 42.2 comes with kernel 4.4 while Ubuntu 16.10 ships with 4.8. I know that that doesn’t solve your problem, but at least you know what to llok for on a distro to make your card work.
I’m using Leap 42.1.34-33 (i5 6500, gtx 750 ti, asus z170-p, 8gb 2133 ram) and I’m having the worst time trying to get the drivers installed and working properly. I’ve scoured the net for solutions and implemented pretty much all of them to no avail. I love Suse and have done for the past few years and, until now, it’s never let me down. For those of you who have had success getting it working, congrats! Maybe help a newbie out with your solution?
I’m the owner of a graphic card “Sapphire Radeon Nitro Plus RX 480 OC 8GB GDDR5” and it works PERFECTLY.
Add these 2 repos and you have it solved
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/pontostroy:/X11/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
😉
What kernel did it install?
Currently this 4.8.12-1.gf8adb5a-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 2 09:44:55 UTC 2016 (f8adb5a) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux, But that is to exceed 4.7 is valid.
lspci -nnk |grep -A3 VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Polaris10] [1002:67df] (rev c7)
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Device [174b:e347]
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: amdgpu
Thanks. Gonna try it tomorrow.
I hope you are lucky, my first language is Spanish, but if you have problems, opensuse has a large community in different languages, I offer the Spanish language on forosuse.org or use https://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php for Choose yours. Have a lot of fun !!
Thanks for your advice. It worked. However I can’t get vmware to install with the newer kernel so I am back where I started.
I’m really glad that works for you. Have you tried using virtualbox? If you want to try you can use the official page, it will work.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.10/VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.10_112026_openSUSE132-1.x86_64.rpm
I feel that my English is so horrible.