Catalyst 14.30.1005

[Guest]

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/R9-285-Catalyst-Software.aspx

Seems to have a driver date of August 29th. The Windows driver has to be modified to support other hardware; not sure if the Linux driver is the same ordeal.

[Guest]

- Supports kernel 3.14+ as-is (installs fine on 3.16.1); firegl_public.c shows:

KCL_TYPE_Uid ATI_API_CALL KCL_GetEffectiveUid(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
    return __kuid_val(current_euid());
#else
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,14,00)
    return __kuid_val(current_euid());
#else
#ifdef current_euid
    return current_euid();
#else
    return current->euid;
#endif // current_euid
#endif // LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,14,00)
#endif // CONFIG_UIDGID_STRICT_TYPE_CHECKS
}

- Does not seem to support other hardware other than the R9 285 (I get "No supported adapters detected" on 7660G + 7670M hardware); someone on the Windows driver said it worked on their R9 290.

[Guest]

- Does not seem to support other hardware other than the R9 285 (I get "No supported adapters detected" on 7660G + 7670M hardware); someone on the Windows driver said it worked on their R9 290.

Correction on this. If you have the already-configured xorg.conf, the driver works fine. You can't generate another xorg.conf though on unsupported hardware.

So if you've installed a previous version of fglrx and didn't remove xorg.conf, and then installed this driver, you'd be fine

Here's some version info:

OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 7600M Series
OpenGL version string: 4.4.13083 Compatibility Profile Context 14.30.1005

- Chrome still shifts to the right with HW acceleration enabled for me

[storma]

Another option is to copy the control file from an older release over. This will get you past the unsupported hardware problem.

Extract the driver, cp fglrx-xxxx/common/etc/ati/control

This driver does not work with xorg 1.16. "libglx.so undefined symbol Loadextension"

[idanny]

Unfortunatly this driver doesn't work with my 280X on Ubuntu 14.04.
I first installed the fglrx driver in Software Center, and then installed this driver. (because i got the unsupported device message also). After a reboot, nothing happens. Black screen, can not even get into the terminal to fix it.
I am probably doing something wrong here, but i just cant seem to get the 280X working in Ubuntu without the 100% fan issue, screen tearing, terrible 3d-performance et cetera. I think i may have to give it up and buy an NVidia card instead.