AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Driver For Linux Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Driver For Linux Released

The AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta driver was released today and with it comes full support for OpenGL 4.3, support for the Linux 3.10 kernel, and various fixes...

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

[gQuigs]

Legacy driver...

I wonder if AMD will be releasing any more updates for the Legacy driver [1].. It does seem like by 14.04 the Radeon driver might be good enough.. but until then I'm stuck on 12.04..

(It also makes benchmarking between them harder!)

[1] http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...eon_linux.aspx

[LinuxGamer]

I wonder if AMD will be releasing any more updates for the Legacy driver [1].. It does seem like by 14.04 the Radeon driver might be good enough.. but until then I'm stuck on 12.04..

(It also makes benchmarking between them harder!)

[1] http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...eon_linux.aspx

no point the Opensource Drivers support HD2000 and up and are going to be really well Supported soon

[entropy]

I wonder if AMD will be releasing any more updates for the Legacy driver [1].. It does seem like by 14.04 the Radeon driver might be good enough.. but until then I'm stuck on 12.04..

(It also makes benchmarking between them harder!)

[1] http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...eon_linux.aspx

I think you're safe to assume there won't be any new legacy drivers for R600 and R700 ASICs.

[ext73]

;(

Well, unfortunately I can not use these drivers: P ... AMD something of 13.4 is a non-stop "mishaps":

MSi X370 AMD APU E-350 + my kernel [Brazos version]:

ext73@ext73-kernel:~$ uname -a
Linux ext73-kernel 3.10.4-ext73-f1-25.2-brazos-ags-cfs #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 29 10:56:16 CEST 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

ext73@ext73-kernel:~$ amdcccle
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Setting of real/effective user Id to 0/0 failed
libGL error: open uki failed (Operation not permitted)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
Naruszenie ochrony pamięci

ext73@ext73-kernel:~$ fglrxinfo 
Setting of real/effective user Id to 0/0 failed
libGL error: open uki failed (Operation not permitted)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics
OpenGL version string: 2.1 (4.3.12438 Compatibility Profile Context 13.20.5)

[deri]

no point the Opensource Drivers support HD2000 and up and are going to be really well Supported soon

What do you mean by that?

[entropy]

Any ideas what this is?

"Dynamic primary surface resizing"

It's listed as one of the release highlights.

[LinuxGamer]

What do you mean by that?

a lot of Patch sets have when into the kernel Drivers Etc for AMD's Opensource Drivers look around Phoronix and you will see them

[verde]

I wonder if AMD will be releasing any more updates for the Legacy driver [1].. It does seem like by 14.04 the Radeon driver might be good enough.. but until then I'm stuck on 12.04..

(It also makes benchmarking between them harder!)

[1] http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...eon_linux.aspx

Without the Tomasz Makarewicz ppa, even Ubuntu 12.04 does not support Legacy drivers. I think opensource DPM should be enabled by default ASAP!

Notebook users with AMD legacy GPUs have problem right now with AMD's proprietary driver support actually abandoned (This model does not work for Linux at all).

[Vim_User]

Without the Tomasz Makarewicz ppa, even Ubuntu 12.04 does not support Legacy drivers. I think opensource DPM should be enabled by default ASAP!

Notebook users with AMD legacy GPUs have problem right now with AMD's proprietary driver support actually abandoned (This model does not work for Linux at all).

Even with DPM enabled that problems are still not solved for the legacy GPU in my laptop.