How to manage AMD GPU drivers on a rolling release?

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AMD GPU drivers are built into the kernel, so kernel management becomes a thing on a rolling release:

  • Always have at least 2 LTS kernels running on your system (At the time of this writing 5.4 and 5.10 are the newest)
  • Ensure grub is showing at startup:

    • execute:

      sudo nano --backup /etc/default/grub

    • Change (or add?) the following 3 lines:

      GRUB_TIMEOUT=3
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
#GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

      (3 or higher is fine, add the # before the lines above if those lines are present)

    • Ctrl+X Y Enter to save if there is anything to save

    • If you did save, execute:

      sudo update-grub

    • Reboot

Those are the basics.

And this answer is a wiki answer, so any TL3 can edit this to add more tips!

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