try follow this : drivers - amdgpu-pro-install on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with R9 285 and RX 480 - Ask Ubuntu
thanks, but in my version of SA 3 there is no such line of code.
maybe it is older by a day or so
strangely, though, when I say git checkout master it says that it is on the master branch
do I simply
cd silentarmy
sudo apt-get update
?
rebuilld it or download all new files from github
cd silentarmy; git pull
I believe that’s it. Nothing to do with silentarmy is updated with ‘apt-get’, unless it’s an external dependency.
great, thanks! 20chars
EDIT: upon git pull
merge error: silentarmy
commit your local changes or stash them
aborting
??
thanks!
I would try it in morning!
amdgpupro drivers not getting recognized in 16.04
stay away from it!
That message indicates you’ve made changed to your local copy that would be affected by pulling the latest from git. If you don’t care about your changes, then you can just rm -r * and then perform git pull.
yeah, thanks
i just removed the whole folder (had to issue at least 20 y commands) and git new version
first impression: not much speed increase on R9 380 (with fglrx flag at 1)
also, default vs 3 instances also no discernible difference, which is kind of strange.
Whaat. How did you install this driver my dear fellow?
I am tinkering for 5 days straight now with Windows 7, 8.1 10, Xubuntu 14.04.1, Xubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10 and I can’t get the drivers to work correctly without crashing or sending my kernel to bananaland.
Ubuntu 16.04 is fine, also down to what cards you have, As some cards don’t work with AMDgpu pro 16.40
Ie 280x are not in the list on amd gpu pro 16.04
‘‘Radeon™ R7 300, R9 295X2, R9 280X, R9 280, R9 270X, R9 270, R7 265, R7 250X, R7 250, R7 240, HD 8500 - HD 8900, and HD 7700 – HD 7900 Series’’
''Download the AMDGPU-PRO Driver (as of 30 Oct 2016, the latest version is 16.40)
Extract it: $ tar xf amdgpu-pro-16.40-348864.tar.xz
Install (non-root, will use sudo access automatically): $ ./amdgpu-pro-install
Add yourself to the video group if not already a member: sudo gpasswd -a (whoami) video
Reboot’’
very important these steps imo…
Dont get me wrong, I cant even get Ubunta to boot on one Board(Z68 extrerme)
May I ask which kernel you are running?
Mine is 4.4.0-35, Just installed the driver again and will see what happens upon another reboot for today (beyond 600 and counting) 
Edit//
Nope. Installation works without errors. But after restarting I pop back to the login screen each time I try to log in.
Syslog tells me for the login attempt:
Nov 6 20:45:47 AnorakRig1 lightdm: pam_ecryptfs: pam_sm_authenticate: /home/anorak is already mounted
Nov 6 20:45:47 AnorakRig1 org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1710]: A connection to the bus can't be made
Nov 6 20:45:47 AnorakRig1 systemd[1]: Started Session c4 of user anorak.
Nov 6 20:45:47 AnorakRig1 org.ayatana.bamf[2037]: bamfdaemon start/running, process 2112
Nov 6 20:45:47 AnorakRig1 org.a11y.Bus[2037]: ** (process:2139): WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
Nov 6 20:45:47 AnorakRig1 org.a11y.Bus[2037]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 6 20:45:47 AnorakRig1 org.a11y.Bus[2037]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 6 20:45:47 AnorakRig1 org.a11y.atspi.Registry[2151]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 gnome-session[2193]: gnome-session-is-accelerated: No hardware 3D support.
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 gnome-session[2193]: gnome-session-check-accelerated: Helper exited with code 256
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 gnome-session[2193]: gnome-session-binary[2193]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 gnome-session-binary[2193]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 lightdm[967]: ** (lightdm:967): CRITICAL **: session_get_login1_session_id: assertion 'session != NULL' failed
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 systemd[1]: Started Session c5 of user lightdm.
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 pulseaudio[1337]: [pulseaudio] module-alsa-card.c: Failed to find a working profile.
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 pulseaudio[1337]: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-card" (argument: "device_id="4" name="pci-0000_04_00.1" card_name="alsa_card.pci-0000_04_00.1" namereg_fail=false tsched=yes fixed_latency_range=no ignore_dB=no deferred_volume=yes use_ucm=yes card_properties="module-udev-detect.discovered=1""): initialization failed.
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 org.a11y.Bus[2257]: ** (process:2262): WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 org.a11y.Bus[2257]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 org.a11y.Bus[2257]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
Nov 6 20:45:48 AnorakRig1 org.a11y.atspi.Registry[2279]: SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
Nov 6 20:45:49 AnorakRig1 dbus[866]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.bluez' unit='dbus-org.bluez.service'
Edit 2//
Just switched over to my 2nd rig, same hardware, same setup, same problem. Huhh… 
I had the same problem too. Cryptomined suggested to disable the onboard graphics in the bios.
I haven’t tried it yet as im running win10 on it at the moment, but may try ubuntu again shortly…
What cards you using?
Try with one card?
iGPU is disabled.
Running 6 Saphire RX470 Nitro+ 4GB on each rig.
Also tried with only 1 card. It installs, and I can boot and login. But mining performance is like 10 Sol/s with claymore and silentarmy. 
Updated my sources to latest dev. Got kernel 4.4.0-46. Trying to install the driver again now, with all 6 GPUs inserted.
Edit//
amdgpu: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[drm:amdgpu_init [amdgpu]] ERROR VGACON disables amdgpu kernel modesetting.
Nope, wont do it with this kernel ether.
Okay, from scratch. Getting another Ubuntu iso now. Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.1.
If that fails, I’ll switch to Windows 10 one more time.
There has to be a solution. Can not have 12 GPUs laying around here for decoration.
Edit 2//
Uh there will be some tinkering on Gnome 16.04 aswell:
Mine works fine you must not of installed them properly
I just followed the instructions here from here after a fresh installation of Ubuntu 16.04 (and after sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && reboot):
Seems cryptomined was right. I was using a VGA monitor I had spare and using the onboard graphics for the desktop, and had the 6 GPU’s installed with 1x risers.
This works fine in windows 10, but when I installed ubuntu then installed the amdgpu-pro 16.40 I was also faced with a login prompt, that just kept returning me to the same login again.
Re-installed everything and it was still the same after installing the amdgpu-pro driver, same issue.
I’ve just installed ubuntu again about 20 mins ago, but this time I did as cryptomined suggested and disabled the onboard graphics in the bios.
I then connected a tv via HDMI to my RX470 card that was installed in the 16x PCIE slot, with the 1x riser. All other cards were still connected.
I followed the instructions again on the silent army github page, but this time it all worked!
Hope this helps someone else.
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Cool! I am trying this aswell right now. Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 installed (nice desktop btw) and now I run down the instructions from silentarmy. 