AMD Catalyst 9.5 Driver For Linux Released

[Adarion]

If you can live with errors in dmesg there is a hotfix for 2.6.29.

Well, if it is only an error message without something serious behind it, of course it's not beautiful but I might give it a try. Where can it be obtained?
Or wait for the free drivers to gain 3d acceleration on the newer chips. I mean I'm used to wait for all sorts of things so...

I wonder why these release notes have a big "draft" in background and why there is said nearly nothing in them. But maybe I should fire up my akregator and see if something is in the RSS feed.

[energyman]

Howdy,

Thanks for the responses. Where do I get the 9.5 driver? When I go to ati.amd.com and when I poke the "graphic drivers" link, I get a 3 element form. I select "linux" then "firegl" and then "firegl 5200" and get this file from the resulting "download". firepro_8.583_linux_77161.zip.

I install this and reboot and now get the "unsupported hardware" watermark on the screen.

George...

wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...x86.x86_64.run
?

but since the 5200 is based on R500 and the support for them had been dropped, 9.5 is not for you.

[grgoffe]

Energyman,

Thank you for your response.

The version I get from their web site is that zip file I mentioned above. Either I goofed the install or it's broken. I usually save the install materials for software I install but in this case I did not. Is there an archive site somewhere?

Regards,

George...

[gfxdrone]

Does anyone know if 9-5 still requires libdrm2 v 2.3.x debian like the previous ones, or does it support the new libdrm 2.4?

[RealNC]

Does anyone know if 9-5 still requires libdrm2 v 2.3.x debian like the previous ones, or does it support the new libdrm 2.4?

I'm on libdrm 2.4.11 and never had problems, even with previous Catalyst releases.

[Kano]

Well you have problems when you use Xserver 1.4 and not 1.5+.

[djdoo]

Does anyone know if 9-5 still requires libdrm2 v 2.3.x debian like the previous ones, or does it support the new libdrm 2.4?

2.4.11 here too and X server 1.6.1, no problem driver works properly with the common well known bugs

P.S: Well I finally found something new in the 9.5 catalyst!
Screen turns off correctly now when you set it from KDE's settings for powersave

[Kano]

Maybe you did not understand me, when you use Xserver 1.4 then the fglrx driver is a differnt one than which is installed when you have got 1.5/1.6. And when you update libdrm on that config you run into troubles.

[djdoo]

I got your point Kano from the first place.
I just wanted to reply to our friend and mention my great bugfix discovery!

[doubledr]

sad? why? Windows users make up 90+ of amd/ati costumers. So it is the right choice to support them as good as possible. Also Windows is a lot easier to support. There is only ONE Windows 7rc, One Vista, One Xp. Not 100+ different distributions all with different kernels, Xorg, Xfree, libc, mesa, compiler...

Since Catalyst 9.5 still gives me a black screen but other gentoo users say 9.5 runs fine, I do think maybe my system have some package different than others. So I agree your saying, supporting Linux is tough...

Can ATI post recommended package version list for each driver in the future so that we have a better chance to avoid troubles?