# AMD Environment Setup **URL:** \ **Category:** Mining\ **Created:** [February 5, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/amd-environment-setup/3848 "2019-02-05T16:56:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LuckyX2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@LuckyX2](https://forum.grin.mw/u/LuckyX2)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/amd-environment-setup/3848/1 "2019-02-05T16:56:43Z")
Hi all, I want to test out mining on my Vega64 but I’m having a real difficult time getting the environment setup, clinfo shows 0 OpenCL platforms, etc. People running AMD, how did you set your environment up? I installed the latest 18.50 pro driver. Tried it both with and without the --opencl=legacy flag and neither seems to work. Can’t ever get it to identify any OpenCL devices. Thanks! Trying to mine in Ubuntu 18.04 with grin-miner btw. ---
**Author:** ![photon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/photon/32/27_2.png) [@photon](https://forum.grin.mw/u/photon)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/amd-environment-setup/3848/2 "2019-02-05T18:43:54Z")
You need to be in `video` group for OpenCL to work. But this only worked for me on Ubuntu Desktop, could not get it to work on Ubuntu server. ---
**Author:** ![LuckyX2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@LuckyX2](https://forum.grin.mw/u/LuckyX2)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/amd-environment-setup/3848/3 "2019-02-05T22:31:15Z")
Well I’m not sure what was different this time but I wiped all traces of the driver/openCL, reinstalled with the --opencl=pal, legacy option and it now correctly detects one platform in clinfo and the miner runs fine. Needed the ocl-icd-opencl-dev package also to build the plugins. Apparently the AMD driver doesn’t include that.