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Mohammad Sohaib
Mohammad Sohaib

Reputation: 575

How to install AMD Video Drivers for Intel Core 2 Duo - (OpenCL requirement.)

My Laptop does not have any Graphic Card. It is a simple Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6500 @ 2.10GHz with Ubuntu 15.10. I want to work with OpenCL 1.2. I Installed the Ubuntu version of OpenCL from here https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/opencl/topic/390630.

Now if I run the 'clinfo' command in Terminal, it gives me:

Number of platforms :   1

and the rest of the info about the platform. Till this part, it's working fine.

But then I followed some simple codes to learn OpenCL from https://github.com/HandsOnOpenCL. I try to run any example and it gives me the following error.

Exception
ERROR: clCreateContextFromType(CL_DEVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE)

I followed the error and found out through this CL_DEVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE using Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU that my CPU does not support OpenCL. In the comments section, they have discussed that alternatively AMD video drivers could be used to run OpenCL...

What is the exact procedure for downloading and installing AMD Video drivers for Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6500 @ 2.10GHz with Ubuntu 15.10? Is there any tutorial that I can follow? Do I have to install the Catalyst?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1836

Answers (1)

doqtor
doqtor

Reputation: 8484

You just need to install AMD-APP-SDK which stands for AMD OpenCL™ Accelerated Parallel Processing SDK.

The installation procedure is very simple:

sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev

Download AMD-APP-SDKInstaller-v3.0.130.135-GA-linux64.tar.bz2 from here and install.

sudo reboot

Upvotes: 2

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