AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 Proprietary Graphics Driver Adds Support for Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

AMD quietly released a few days ago a new stable version of its proprietary graphics driver for Linux-based operating systems, supporting various AMD Radeon graphics.

AMDGPU-PRO 17.10 is here a little over two months after the AMDGPU-PRO 16.60 release, which added support for AMD Radeon HD 7xxx/8xxx graphics cards. This version, however, appears to add support for Canonical’s latest Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, but only for the 64-bit version of it.

A couple of issues have been resolved as well in AMDGPU-PRO 17.10, such as system boot failures on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 operating systems when using Display Port 1.2, as well as periodic screen corruption during system restart if the AMD performance mode was to be switched manually.

Supports CentOS 7.3/6.8, RHEL 7.3/6.8, SLED/SLES 12 SP2, and Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

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