AMD Catalyst 14.12 Linux Driver Released -- Huge Update!

[Vidar]

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So the omega drivers haven't changed anything?

[dungeon]

I think i am surprised with this one, really tramandios performance boost in Windows with this driver... whatever this driver does for my Kabini it is a really a huge boost in many places .

Really great job AMD does with this Omega driver

I haven't yet tried linux omega driver, we will see that one

[leonmaxx]

OK, for Ubuntu 14.04, new catalyst and wine 1.7, I followed an advice on changing deb file dependencies (http://askubuntu.com/questions/54078...fglrx-conflict), and did the following:
1. Install wine1.7
2. Edit fglrx-core dependencies:

mkdir tmp
dpkg -x fglrx-core_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb tmp
dpkg --control fglrx-core_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb tmp tmp/DEBIAN
gedit tmp/DEBIAN/control

remove libopencl1 from Conflicts: and Provides: and make a new deb package:

dpkg -b tmp/ fglrx-core_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64-FIX.deb

3. Install all deb files (of course, for fgrlx-core use the fixed version)

Not sure if this will disrupt OpenCL in any way (probably will), so don't do it if you need OpenCL, I guess...

Or You can try add libopencl-1.1-1 and libopencl-1.1-1:i386 to "Provides" section.

[Kano]

It is just a symlink now. In the case you used old packageing just do symlink that way (Debian style example):

ln -fvs $(dpkg -S libXvBAW.so.1.0|awk '{print $2}') $(dpkg -S fglrx_drv_video.so|awk '{print $2}')

[schmidtbag]

So the omega drivers haven't changed anything?

Not sure - we'll have to see results for it first. I'm sure they are improved. The open source drivers for AMD are pretty nice, but depending on what you do, they may be lacking a little. If you can wait it out, you can usually get what you want eventually.

[AJSB]

About WINE and OpenCL issue with this driver...there is a solution....atually, it NEVER was a problem to me WINE and OpenCL...

Just compile WINE w/o OpenCL support and presto !

I never compiled WINE with OpenCL support anyway...

Gonna attempt in next days find time to make a fresh instalation of Slackware in a Trinity APU to see what happens...will install Steam and WINE to check it out.


PS: This driver is NOT only for GCN...just check the list of supported cards and you can see that.

[alexThunder]

So the omega drivers haven't changed anything?

For Dota 2, not that much. I think the performance was worse with the fglrx from Ubuntu 14.10's repos than it was with 14.9, but it got better again with Omega, but I didn't measure it, it's just my impression.

Can't say much about other games with Omega for now. Just overall all my Linux games have been running at least fine (probably still worse than on windows) for a couple of months now.

[Kano]

Btw. the needed patch for 3.17/3.18 is still the old one.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/funtoo/funtoo-overlay/master/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/files/14.9/fglrx_3.17rc6-no_hotplug.patch

The monkey who wrote something about 3.17 support was not correctly informed as from 3.17 to 3.18 there was no extra patch needed...

[rogerdv]

Is there any mirror to download it? Official site is blocked for my country.

[xpris]

Btw. the needed patch for 3.17/3.18 is still the old one.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/funtoo/funtoo-overlay/master/x11-drivers/ati-drivers/files/14.9/fglrx_3.17rc6-no_hotplug.patch

The monkey who wrote something about 3.17 support was not correctly informed as from 3.17 to 3.18 there was no extra patch needed...

Thanks, with this patch AMD Catalyst 14.12 working fine on kernel 3.18