AMD's Updated Catalyst Linux Driver Now Available

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD's Updated Catalyst Linux Driver Now Available

A few hours ago I wrote that AMD would release a new Catalyst Linux driver today and now they've delivered in having same-day AMD Kaveri Linux graphics support when using their binary driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU3MTE

[brosis]

Good to know.
Also, excellent that they went over themself and shipped you a sample. This is excellent.
But the opensource is still never ready upon release, architecture after architecture. Intel catched up here looong ago. I wish they abandon stupid Catalyst!

I guess one can write that off to the fact they are not as big as before, but they recently released 9590 CPU and guess what - it consumes so much current, one can power TWO Intel 4770 or 1245v3 Xeons of it. Xeons and desktop also cost same and roughtly equal to 9590. Sucks... :/ But could be worse.

Good thing is that Intel competition has various artificial limitations, that reminds one of not trusting anyone.

[mercutio]

does it work with xorg 1.15 yet?

[darkbasic]

No, it doesn't. Come on AMD, it can't be that difficult considering Nvidia already does it -.-

[mercutio]

No, it doesn't. Come on AMD, it can't be that difficult considering Nvidia already does it -.-

yah. i've switched to radeonsi, i found that i can make my window manager resize windows opaquely so it's kind of usable, as long as i don't run gtkperf, then my desktop gets completely unresponsive as soon as gets to the lines test.

if i could i'd use intel onboard video, but alas i'm using 1440p dvi-d monitors that onboard video can't support (one on each computer, mostly amd video cards only support one dual-link dvi too)

[molecule-eye]

So this is basically 13.12 with support for the newer GPUs? In other words, the beta version is better if running Steam games?

[LacerdaPT]

Hi

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but it is not clear.
Does this release suppport all the previously supported hardware? On the link phoronix provided it only states :
Supported Products:

AMD A10-7850K Desktop APU with AMD Radeon R7 Series graphics
AMD A10-7700K Desktop APU with AMD Radeon R5 Series graphics

is this the changelog?

[GreatEmerald]

Hi

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but it is not clear.
Does this release suppport all the previously supported hardware? On the link phoronix provided it only states :
Supported Products:

AMD A10-7850K Desktop APU with AMD Radeon R7 Series graphics
AMD A10-7700K Desktop APU with AMD Radeon R5 Series graphics

is this the changelog?

It sounds more like a typo... The R5 series mostly consist of pre-GCN cards, so they should have been supported before that.

[Guest]

Hi

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but it is not clear.
Does this release suppport all the previously supported hardware? On the link phoronix provided it only states :
Supported Products:

AMD A10-7850K Desktop APU with AMD Radeon R7 Series graphics
AMD A10-7700K Desktop APU with AMD Radeon R5 Series graphics

is this the changelog?

It supports previous hardware too (works fine on my 7850 and 7660G + 7670M).