AMD Releases Updated Catalyst Linux Graphics Driver (v14.30)

[olbi]

Xubuntu 14.04 and still Radeon HD 5750 and R7 250 don't work. Wtf is with this shit drivers?! All GeForce works out of the box.

[mmstick]

Reversing the chessboard, seems like their reason for releasing this graphics driver is that they are still working on a different driver and that this is a stopgap measure to support their new product until they have released the official driver that they are working on. Still, they need to release something soon because it has been nearly 3 months without an update from the last beta driver.

[Guest]

Hmm, didn't see this thread before I made a thread on AMD Linux already, ah well.

Anyway:

- Works on 3.16.1 as-is (firegl_public.c mod was already done)
- Can work on unsupported hardware if you have a generated xorg.conf already (you can't generate another one on unsupported hardware); works fine on 7660G + 7670M laptop
- Google Chrome still shifts to the right a few pixels when maximized with HW acceleration enabled

Xubuntu 14.04 and still Radeon HD 5750 and R7 250 don't work. Wtf is with this shit drivers?! All GeForce works out of the box.

Not sure what you're trying to say; those same Radeon GPUs work out the box too unless you use a significantly outdated distro.

Does "all" GeForce hardware work superbly with the Nouveau driver though? I bet not. Can bet the 5750 works nicely with the Radeon driver. Not certain on the R7 250.

If you're going to bash something, do it right

[Hibbelharry]

@olbi:

There is surely not much reason to use fglrx on radeon 5750...

[nadro]

All GeForce works out of the box.

Each Radeon (except R290) works out of the box too - open source drivers are default for both GF and Radeon, but drivers for Radeon are much better. It's not AMD fault that you don't read manual how to install drivers... I wrote you how to install FGLRX in another thread...

[djdoo]

Does it support Xserver 1.16??

[DaVince]

Does "all" GeForce hardware work superbly with the Nouveau driver though? I bet not. Can bet the 5750 works nicely with the Radeon driver. Not certain on the R7 250.

If you're going to bash something, do it right

Be careful not to compare apples to oranges. This is talk about comparing the proprietary drivers, not the open-source ones. (Even if that is the way to go in the end.)

That said, it probably just didn't work because this driver release is mainly for that new GPU.

[storma]

Does it support Xserver 1.16??

No. "libglx.so undefined symbol LoadExtension"

[Guest]

Be careful not to compare apples to oranges. This is talk about comparing the proprietary drivers, not the open-source ones. (Even if that is the way to go in the end.)

That said, it probably just didn't work because this driver release is mainly for that new GPU.

Yeah but he said "out the box" which was a bit confusing. Out-the-box implies open-source drivers.

I don't know of any distro where a proprietary graphics driver is installed right after install. Although now that I think about it, perhaps that 3rd-party checkbox during Ubuntu installers might do that?

But in any case, considering this is a R9 285-specific release, I don't know how one would expect other hardware to work, and then complain when it doesn't...

[mmstick]

Yeah but he said "out the box" which was a bit confusing. Out-the-box implies open-source drivers.

I don't know of any distro where a proprietary graphics driver is installed right after install. Although now that I think about it, perhaps that 3rd-party checkbox during Ubuntu installers might do that?

But in any case, considering this is a R9 285-specific release, I don't know how one would expect other hardware to work, and then complain when it doesn't...

Sabayon has shipped with proprietary drivers out of the box since forever.