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Steps to configure AMD drivers on Ubuntu 14.04.5 & 16.04

The below steps have been tested on sgminer-gm & sgminer-nicehash

Download and install Video drivers

1. Web to http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/graphics-development/display-library-adl-sdk. Download the latest version. This was tested on ADL_SDK10.2
2. Copy ALD_SDK zip file to /tmp
3. mkdir /opt/ADL_SDK
4. cd /opt/ADL_SDK
5. unzip /tmp/ADL_SDK_V10.2.zip
6. Web to http://support.amd.com/en-us/download and download the latest version for you card. This was last tested on 17.10 64bit
7. Copy downloaded file to tmp
8. cd /tmp
9. tar xfvpJ amdgpu-pro-17.10-401251.tar.xz
10. cd amdgpu-pro-17.10-401251
11. ./amdgpu-pro-install --compute
12. aptitude install libdrm-amdgpu-pro-dev libgbm1-amdgpu-pro-dev libglamor-amdgpu-pro-dev

Building sgminer-nicehash

1. sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev git automake libtool libjansson* libncurses5-dev
2. git clone --recursive https://github.com/nicehash/sgminer.git
3. mv sgminer sgminer-nicehash
4. cd sgminer-nicehash/
5. cp /opt/ADL_SDK/include/*.h ./ADL_SDK
6. ./autogen.sh
7. ./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -Wall -march=native -I/opt/amdgpu-pro/include -L/opt/amdgpu-pro/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" --prefix=/opt/sgminer-nicehash
8. make
9. make install
10. /opt/sgminer-nicehash/bin./sgminer -n

Bulding sgminer-gm

1. sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev git automake libtool libjansson* libncurses5-dev
2. git clone --recursive https://github.com/genesismining/sgminer-gm
3. cd sgminer-gm
4. git submodule init
5. git submodule update
6. cp /opt/ADL_SDK/include/*.h ./ADL_SDK
7. autoreconf -i
8. CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -march=native -std=gnu99 -I/opt/amdgpu-pro/include -L/opt/amdgpu-pro/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" ./configure --prefix=/opt/sgminer-gm
9. make
10. make install
11. /opt/sgminer-gm/bin/sgminer -n

ROCM Kernel

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get upgrade
3. wget -qO - http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
4. sudo sh -c 'echo deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/ xenial main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list'
5. sudo apt-get remove rocm-smi
6. sudo apt-get update
7. sudo apt-get install rocm
8. sudo vim /etc/default/grub and add the below line below

#2MB fragments for Ellesmere are enabled with a grub option:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="amdgpu.vm_fragment_size=9"

9. sudo update-grub
10. sudo reboot

Steps to configure Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 14.04.5 & 16.04

1. Remove Previous Installations (Important)

sudo apt-get purge nvidia*
sudo apt-get autoremove 

2. The latest NVIDIA driver for Linux OS can be fetched from NVIDIA's official website. The first one in the list, i.e. Latest Long Lived Branch version for Linux x86_64/AMD64/EM64T, is suitable for most case. If you want to down load the driver directly in a Linux shell, the script below would be useful.

cd ~
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/384.69/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.69.run

3. Install Dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc-multilib dkms

4. Creat Blacklist for Nouveau Driver

Create a file at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf with the following contents:

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

5. Update Grub

sudo update-initramfs -u

6. Reboot

sudo reboot

7. Stop x server

For Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04, excuting sudo service lightdm stop (or use gdm or kdm instead of lightdm)
For Ubuntu 16.04 / Fedora / CentOS, excuting sudo systemctl stop lightdm (or use gdm or kdm instead of lightdm)

8. Excuting the Runfile

cd ~
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.69.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.69.run --dkms -s

9. Check nvida driver is loaded

root@wlh-miner2:~# nvidia-smi 
Mon Oct  2 20:38:17 2017       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.69                 Driver Version: 384.69                    |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 950     Off  | 00000000:04:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
|  0%   25C    P0    22W /  75W |      0MiB /  1996MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                       GPU Memory |
|  GPU       PID  Type  Process name                               Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+