[question] How can I tell if I'm running the amdgpu-pro drivers?

[codebling]

I've searched online, read several forum posts, Q&A and relevant Arch wiki articles but I can't figure out how to check whether the amdgpu-pro drivers are being used. I've posted on StackExchange as well, but got no response. How can I tell if the amdgpu-pro drivers are running? Why are DKMS and mkinitcpio not triggered when installing the pro drivers, aren't there kernel components to the pro drivers?

I've checked output from inxi -Gxxxx and lspci -k but I can't find any "pro" reference.

[marwonline]

I'm currently trying out amdgpu-pro too and had the same question. IMHO nothing points to the user space driver directly. But when running glxinfo | grep OpenGL the open source driver & mesa showed OpenGL 4.5 only. Withamdgpu-pro I see OpenGL version 4.6.13572 for my RX 580.

[codebling]

@marwonline let me know if you find an answer. I solved all of my issues regarding color inversion and HDMI sound on the open-source driver, so I'm currently running that, but would still like to know the answer to this question

[Ashark]

how to check whether the amdgpu-pro drivers are being used?

I have answered in StackExchange and also noted in ArchWiki the way I do it.

Why are DKMS and mkinitcpio not triggered when installing the pro drivers, aren't there kernel components to the pro drivers?

There is a dkms package for ubuntu, but it is not ported to Arch Linux. I cannot answer this question for sure.

[codebling]

Stack answer copied here:

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL vendor string" | cut -f2 -d":" | xargs

If it returns X.Org, then you are running open source driver. If it returns Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., then you are running proprietary driver.