Hey guys, this just present my experience with the ATI drivers after acquiring and mounting this new PC.
A snapshot of my hardware, ):
(I'm just showing this cause I think this is the place where I can get some appreciation from these nice specs)
Anyway on to my adventure with respective drivers:
First time booting in my favourite Debian Jessie everything seemed ok, working with the auto detected configuration from Xorg.
I wanted to test out games and max out graphics to see it out (this actually the first time I have something close to a high computer), So i rushed ahead and installed fglrx with help of the sgfxi script.
Everything was perfect, getting high fps even with ultra graphics on xonotic, steam games were snappier than ever, crispy and beautiful. This is how gaming is meant to be!
So after a couple of days and some update that seemed unrelated , X would fail to start throwing me back to console login. Struggled with this for a couple of days until managed to revert back to radeon and get X back.
But the open-source driver wasn't quite working as well, something was off, no gaming for me at this point. Tried to get fglrx in several ways, including of a few, installing beta from amd, building system package, back-porting packages from experimental, downgrading xserver to stable's version. Nothing worked and all I could get was a black screen at boot.
Turns out I was lucky out to get my system around the time Testing was transitioning into a new xserver version (like last week), which causes horrible incompatibility with proprietary drivers, the fglrx packages were indeed removed from the repos.
But lucky me, this update also brought top notch xserver and drivers and stuff, enabling radeonsi, glamorgl, and even dpm for my specific card (which was reported not working). Plus I got back some functionalities, like dpms properly working for my monitor, and proper HDMI audio.
Xonotic would work ok, didn't get more than 60 fps, but I've guess is built-in vsync. Steam would not work due a very known issue with the open-source drivers, best solution is given by the kind folks at the arch wiki.
This is relevant if steam complains about "opengl glx context is not using direct rendering", and steam games will fail to launch. This is due to some old libraries in the steam runtime, incompatible with more recent systems, and can be fixed by:
Now, for some reason the first time I did this, Steam would work ok but many games would not work correctly or not launch at all, but a day later I've tried and everything worked almost perfectly.
Almost, because there yet may be some specific game issues, for example, Portal 2 which has its own libgcc library version in its folder (just rm or mv it), Civ5 also has some annoying graphical glitches.
Again the kind folk at the arch wiki, managed to fix these and properly document for easy of use for others, plus they're really up-to-date and also prefer radeon open-source drivers.
Now I'm happy to say my linux system (only system) is looking best as ever. If it were a lady I do bone it many times, in fact my girlfriend often mentions it as my mistress.
To top it off, I've found how to properly use cpu drivers to manage cpu frequency (due to overclock made by the bios), and now the cpu is at a cool ~30?C or below for most of the time. GPU is at a constant 37?C.
So how do you say, I've already seen some people around here have the same hardware, what specific configuration did you choose? Do you recommend any xorg.conf specific settings for optimal performance?
A snapshot of my hardware, ):
Code:
ASUS Motherboard AM3+ M5A97 R2.0 (pretty solid and modern board) AMD FX-6300 3.5Ghz AM3+ six core processor VGA PowerColor R7 260X 2GB DDR5 128 Bits Kingston HyperX FURY 4GB 1600MHz DDR3( two of these) 600W Black Master PSU Kingston SSD 2.5? 60 GB V300 SATA III Seagate HDD 1TB ( I already had this one) TP-Link Wireless 150Mbps PCIe TL-WN781ND (Atheros AR9485) Nice spacious tower with 3 fans for some cool computing
Anyway on to my adventure with respective drivers:
First time booting in my favourite Debian Jessie everything seemed ok, working with the auto detected configuration from Xorg.
I wanted to test out games and max out graphics to see it out (this actually the first time I have something close to a high computer), So i rushed ahead and installed fglrx with help of the sgfxi script.
Everything was perfect, getting high fps even with ultra graphics on xonotic, steam games were snappier than ever, crispy and beautiful. This is how gaming is meant to be!
So after a couple of days and some update that seemed unrelated , X would fail to start throwing me back to console login. Struggled with this for a couple of days until managed to revert back to radeon and get X back.
But the open-source driver wasn't quite working as well, something was off, no gaming for me at this point. Tried to get fglrx in several ways, including of a few, installing beta from amd, building system package, back-porting packages from experimental, downgrading xserver to stable's version. Nothing worked and all I could get was a black screen at boot.
Turns out I was lucky out to get my system around the time Testing was transitioning into a new xserver version (like last week), which causes horrible incompatibility with proprietary drivers, the fglrx packages were indeed removed from the repos.
But lucky me, this update also brought top notch xserver and drivers and stuff, enabling radeonsi, glamorgl, and even dpm for my specific card (which was reported not working). Plus I got back some functionalities, like dpms properly working for my monitor, and proper HDMI audio.
Xonotic would work ok, didn't get more than 60 fps, but I've guess is built-in vsync. Steam would not work due a very known issue with the open-source drivers, best solution is given by the kind folks at the arch wiki.
This is relevant if steam complains about "opengl glx context is not using direct rendering", and steam games will fail to launch. This is due to some old libraries in the steam runtime, incompatible with more recent systems, and can be fixed by:
Code:
rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/i386/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 rm ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
Almost, because there yet may be some specific game issues, for example, Portal 2 which has its own libgcc library version in its folder (just rm or mv it), Civ5 also has some annoying graphical glitches.
Again the kind folk at the arch wiki, managed to fix these and properly document for easy of use for others, plus they're really up-to-date and also prefer radeon open-source drivers.
Now I'm happy to say my linux system (only system) is looking best as ever. If it were a lady I do bone it many times, in fact my girlfriend often mentions it as my mistress.
To top it off, I've found how to properly use cpu drivers to manage cpu frequency (due to overclock made by the bios), and now the cpu is at a cool ~30?C or below for most of the time. GPU is at a constant 37?C.
So how do you say, I've already seen some people around here have the same hardware, what specific configuration did you choose? Do you recommend any xorg.conf specific settings for optimal performance?
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