Ubuntu Is Deprecating fglrx (Catalyst) In 16.04 LTS

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  • droidhacker
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2009
    • 2552

    #41
    What? They were still using that? WHY?
    ... this, I suppose, is one of many reasons why I prefer Fedora. No shoving binary crap down my throat when there is good quality open source.

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    • theriddick
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2015
      • 1744

      #42
      The open-source seem to be the future to me, however my 390x doesn't play nice with them most the time. Tried all versions AMDGPU/RADEON etc, some things you can work around but most the time it just crashes games to desktop so. I think no one is working on getting them functional with the special 390x card so once NVIDIA releases their next cards, goodbye to AMD for me.

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      • Max Payne
        Junior Member
        • Nov 2014
        • 32

        #43
        Originally posted by eydee View Post
        It would be great, if the open source alternative was actually feature complete. No overdrive, no crossfire, no eyefinity, buggy video acceleration and there is not even application controlled vsync. And of course, the ever returning stdc++ library conflict, so people have to keep deleting files from games and steam to get them to work. Nice experience for a newcomer, isn't it?
        You forgot to mention, being able to change saturation/digital vibrance values and other minor image tweaks that aren't available on the open source drivers.

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        • Taran'li Maren
          Junior Member
          • Mar 2016
          • 4

          #44
          Originally posted by asdfblah View Post
          deprecated doesn't mean forbidden.

          why are you people complaining? you'll be able to install fglrx just fine...
          Normally I'd agree with you, but if the major distributions deprcate it, then I just know AMD will use that as an excuse to drop it as well. The open source drivers just aren't good enough yet to be the only option.

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          • illwieckz
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2008
            • 354

            #45
            Originally posted by theriddick View Post
            Tried all versions AMDGPU/RADEON etc, some things you can work around but most the time it just crashes games to desktop so. I think no one is working on getting them functional with the special 390x card.
            You probably fall in the firmware issue that was identified recently, you can install the firmware yourself. My 390x wasn't able to run correctly before I use the right firmware. If you don't want to install the firmware by hand and you want to wait it is packaged, you can just set the dpm profile to "high performance", in fact the R9 390x always worked on radeonsi driver if you don't use the "auto balanced" profile, badly it is the default profile. So, just set the profile to "high performance" or install the right firmware, and it will probably fix all your issues like me. You can use this tool to manually change your DPM profile.

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            • Marc Driftmeyer
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2012
              • 1502

              #46
              Wake me when Steam has a pure 64 bit build. I have absolutely no desire to install 500MB+ of 32 bit crap just to test it on any distribution.

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              • linuxforall
                Senior Member
                • Jun 2010
                • 130

                #47
                Good decision of Ubuntu devs to backport the driver from kernel 4.5 giving fair chance to AMD card users. For serious gamers its suicidal to go for AMD anyways.

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                • theriddick
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2015
                  • 1744

                  #48
                  Originally posted by illwieckz View Post

                  You probably fall in the .................
                  That's a DPM issue, I am not getting system or video card crashes and have fixed the DPM issue. The issue is most games will seg fault or crash, I did a work around to get warthunder working but ARK/ARMA3 crash out and a few others in my steam list. I go into the community chat and find people running them fine with OSS so yeah, I give up on it.

                  EDIT: XCOM2 works, Warthunder with custom mesa built. Can't remember what else.

                  Its asking well and truly BEYOND what should be needed to get a video-card working in a OS, so I'm slowly rolling up the middle finger to AMD unless a miracle happens before NVIDIA's next card release in a few months.

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                  • geearf
                    Senior Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 2150

                    #49
                    Originally posted by Taran'li Maren View Post

                    Normally I'd agree with you, but if the major distributions deprcate it, then I just know AMD will use that as an excuse to drop it as well. The open source drivers just aren't good enough yet to be the only option.
                    I doubt AMD worked on the fglrx only for Ubuntu and alike users, I'm guessing it had more to do with pros (fury?).

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                    • xeekei
                      Senior Member
                      • Oct 2012
                      • 870

                      #50
                      They mean they're depreciating the old Catalyst, right? Not the new one that uses AMDGPU, right? I mean the new one isn't released as far as I know, but that has to be what they mean.

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