How To Install HQPlayer Embedded On Ubuntu

[sledwards]

If it helps any, here is what I get after reinstall of rocm-dkms:

 

[sledwards]

@Miska So with everything running as it should with rocm installed, are there any disadvantages to having loaded that will effect HQPe performance?  Admittingly, I am probably only a step above novice as far as lLinux goes. However, I can follow instructions and if you can provide me with the exact command line needed to just to allow the AMD version of embedded to install, I will try that. Forgive me if it somewhere else in this post, may just be missing it.

[Miska]

53 minutes ago, sledwards said:

 

Just try to run "hqplayerd" as root from the command line.

 

[sledwards]

19 minutes ago, Miska said:

Just try to run "hqplayerd" as root from the command line.

 

[Miska]

8 minutes ago, sledwards said:

 

 

That is because you are missing valid path in /etc/ld.so.conf.d and it is not related to the kernel driver.

 

You can do "find /opt -name libamdhip64.so.4"

 

[sledwards]

16 minutes ago, Miska said:

That is because you are missing valid path in /etc/ld.so.conf.d and it is not related to the kernel driver.

 

You can do "find /opt -name libamdhip64.so.4"

Thanks Jussi. Found out what I had wrong. Saw your previous post about adding path to ld.so.conf.d. I was adding "4.5" as rocm version shown in your example, when the correct designation is "4.5.0".

[jvvita]

20 minutes ago, sledwards said:

Thanks Jussi. Found out what I had wrong. Saw your previous post about adding path to ld.so.conf.d. I was adding "4.5" as rocm version shown in your example, when the correct designation is "4.5.0".

So you did

 

Sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/rocm.conf

add "/opt/rocm-4.5.0/lib”

sudo ldconfig 

 

is this so?

[Miska]

3 minutes ago, jvvita said:

So you did

 

Sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/rocm.conf

add "/opt/rocm-4.5.0/lib”

sudo ldconfig 

 

is this so?

 

Sounds correct yes.

 

[sledwards]

1 minute ago, jvvita said:

So you did

 

Sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/rocm.conf

add "/opt/rocm-4.5.0/lib”

sudo ldconfig 

 

is this so?

Yes. I manually edited rocm.conf. I removed 3 identical paths that said " /opt/rocm/lib" and added /opt/rocm-4.5.0/lib. I also got rid of of rock-dkms installation and all is working.

[jvvita]

Just now, Miska said:

 

Sounds correct yes.

 

Thanks. I will try later. And then we could update the guide from the OP. It is nice to have a step-by-step.  Will do a clean install to verify

[pavi]

so, based on the very useful ongoing discussion, the following works on a fresh ubuntu 20.04 install on an i9-12900k:

 

sudo apt update

 

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-20.04 linux-headers-lowlatency-hwe-20.04

sudo reboot

sudo apt install libnuma-dev

 

sudo reboot

 

sudo apt install gnupg2

 

wget -q -O - https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

 

echo 'deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/ ubuntu main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list

 

sudo sh -c "echo '/opt/rocm-4.5.0/lib' >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/rocm.conf"

 

sudo ldconfig

 

wget https://www.sonarnerd.net/src/focal/libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

 

sudo dpkg -i libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

 

wget https://www.signalyst.eu/bins/hqplayerd/focal/hqplayerd_4.28.3-107amd_amd64.deb

 

sudo dpkg -i hqplayerd_4.28.3-107amd_amd64.deb

 

sudo apt install -f

 

sudo hqplayerd -s hqplayer hqplayer

 

sudo systemctl enable hqplayerd

 

sudo systemctl start hqplayerd

 

sudo systemctl status hqplayerd

 

 

after that, I used the following to identify and install the gpu driver (Nvidia 3080)

 

sudo apt install ubuntu-drivers-common

 

ubuntu-drivers devices

 

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470-server

 

[Miska]

29 minutes ago, pavi said:

after that, I used the following to identify and install the gpu driver (Nvidia 3080)

 

sudo apt install ubuntu-drivers-common

 

ubuntu-drivers devices

 

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470-server

 

 

Note that for current HQPlayer releases, you need Nvidia GPU driver version >= 49x.

 

[jvvita]

11 hours ago, pavi said:

so, based on the very useful ongoing discussion, the following works on a fresh ubuntu 20.04 install on an i9-12900k:

 

sudo apt update

 

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-20.04 linux-headers-lowlatency-hwe-20.04

sudo reboot

sudo apt install libnuma-dev

 

sudo reboot

 

sudo apt install gnupg2

 

wget -q -O - https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/rocm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

 

echo 'deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/debian/ ubuntu main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list

 

sudo sh -c "echo '/opt/rocm-4.5.0/lib' >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/rocm.conf"

 

sudo ldconfig

 

wget https://www.sonarnerd.net/src/focal/libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

 

sudo dpkg -i libgmpris_2.2.1-8_amd64.deb

 

wget https://www.signalyst.eu/bins/hqplayerd/focal/hqplayerd_4.28.3-107amd_amd64.deb

 

sudo dpkg -i hqplayerd_4.28.3-107amd_amd64.deb

 

sudo apt install -f

 

sudo hqplayerd -s hqplayer hqplayer

 

sudo systemctl enable hqplayerd

 

sudo systemctl start hqplayerd

 

sudo systemctl status hqplayerd

 

 

after that, I used the following to identify and install the gpu driver (Nvidia 3080)

 

sudo apt install ubuntu-drivers-common

 

ubuntu-drivers devices

 

sudo apt install nvidia-utils-470-server

 

Confirmed. Work for me too on a clean install (i9-10900k no GPU). Thanks

[sledwards]

11 hours ago, Miska said:

Note that for current HQPlayer releases, you need Nvidia GPU driver version >= 49x

How do we know when GPU driver needs update? Latest version of HQPe (4.28.3-107) was working fine on version 470 (CUDA 11.4). Updated to 495 and CUDA 11.5 and HQPe still runs fine.  Or is the fact its running doesn't ensure compatibility?

[Miska]

31 minutes ago, sledwards said:

How do we know when GPU driver needs update? Latest version of HQPe (4.28.3-107) was working fine on version 470 (CUDA 11.4). Updated to 495 and CUDA 11.5 and HQPe still runs fine.  Or is the fact its running doesn't ensure compatibility?

 

When the driver is too old, CUDA offload doesn't get enabled. You can see this from the web interface for example when you have playback ongoing. Currently Nvidia ships driver version 495.46 with CUDA 11.5.1 for Ubuntu.

 

Generally, if you stick to latest available driver, things should continue to work. HQPlayer is always built with latest CUDA available at the moment of release.

 

[pavi]

3 hours ago, jvvita said:

Confirmed. Work for me too on a clean install (i9-10900k no GPU). Thanks

thanks so much, @jvvita & @Miska, for working together to bring this to clarity — very much appreciated.

[jvvita]

Just to give everyone a heads up: amd updated the rocm packages to v5. But HQPlayer will not work with v5. You have to stick to v4.5, as

@Miska has advised.

 

So be careful when doing apt upgrade if the rocm repo is active in your install

 

[sledwards]

Yes, it was active in my install. Have tried to go back with no luck. I point to 4.5 repository and hqplayerd returns this:

 

hqplayerd: error while loading shared libraries: libamdhip64.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

 

Please help.

[Miska]

2 hours ago, sledwards said:

Yes, it was active in my install. Have tried to go back with no luck. I point to 4.5 repository and hqplayerd returns this:

 

hqplayerd: error while loading shared libraries: libamdhip64.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.

 

This is what I have:

jussi@ubuntu-srv:~$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/rocm.conf 
/opt/rocm/lib

 

But if your alternatives of /opt/rocm is pointing now to 5.0, you may need to use /opt/rocm-4.5.0/lib instead. Note that you can have both there as well, that should transition you over to 5.0 smoothly.

 

Or just wait for next HQPlayer Embedded release which should happen shortly and uses ROCm 5.0.

 

[sledwards]

 

When I list the repositories I get this:

 

 

I can navigate to the above location. When I try to update, I get this:

 

 

From there I am lost. When I try to install hqplayer:

 

[jvvita]

Did you try adding the flag [trusted=yes] in the rocm.list file? It should be added in the line that defines the repository path, after deby

 

You should find the file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

 

 

 

[sledwards]

This is not working:

 

deb [trusted=yes] [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/4.5/dists/ ubuntu main

 

 

[Miska]

2 minutes ago, sledwards said:

This is not working:

 

deb [trusted=yes] [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/4.5/dists/ ubuntu main

 

This works just fine:

deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/4.5/ ubuntu main

 

As documented here:

https://rocmdocs.amd.com/en/latest/Installation_Guide/Installation-Guide.html#ubuntu

 

[sledwards]

25 minutes ago, jvvita said:

Did you try adding the flag [trusted=yes] in the rocm.list file? It should be added in the line that defines the repository path, after deby

I just replaced the arch=amd64 with trusted=yes and it worked! I am back to running again.  Thank you very much!

[jvvita]

Enjoy!