Sorry for the late update but I gave up and installed Windows 10 Home without registering. We don't use this computer much so we can live with the watermark and limited features. I backed up all of the working files I had and wiped it clean.
With Windows 10, the AMD drivers installed easily and FAH works with the GPU and CPU flawlessly. The viewer shows the demo but I can live without that working as long as it is helping find cures.
For anyone that finds this later, here is a list of other items I tried that did not work:
- Installed a free game from Steam to install additional drivers
- Tried Manjaro but could not get FAH to work. You may have better luck from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Folding@home
- Tried Pop!_OS by System76. This distro is my new favorite as it was the easiest to install, update and get to work.
- Install opencl for Intel (https://askubuntu.com/questions/796770/ ... -on-ubuntu). I thought this would work and would be the missing link but no luck.
- Downloaded the AMD drivers again, found every listing for OpenCL and installed it one at a time.
- Installed regular AMD gpu drivers
- Installed AMD gpu pro drivers. And removing previous regular gpu drivers before installing pro. And then reinstalling regular drivers
- Tried the openmesa drivers
- Tried installing Miniconda to install PyOpenCL from https://wiki.tiker.net/OpenCLHowTo
- After all of this, I uninstalled and reinstalled FAH, restarted, and it did recognize the GPU with OpenCL
