Ubuntu Is Deprecating fglrx (Catalyst) In 16.04 LTS

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67322

    Ubuntu Is Deprecating fglrx (Catalyst) In 16.04 LTS

    Phoronix: Ubuntu Is Deprecating fglrx (Catalyst) In 16.04 LTS

    Ubuntu developers have deprecated the fglrx / Catalyst Linux display stack for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Users of this upcoming Ubuntu release are now encouraged to use the open-source Radeon display stack...

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  • Ericg
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2012
    • 2585

    #2
    Originally posted by Master5000 View Post
    Morons.... Linux progresses while going back in time. Next version: support for opengl 2.0.
    What are you talking about?
    All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.

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    • andre30correia
      Senior Member
      • May 2015
      • 1154

      #3
      Finally. I hope this is the end of fglrx. Amd don,t put out support for x1,18, or new kernels.Great day

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      • ernstp
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2007
        • 544

        #4
        Now if we only could have OpenGL 4.3 at least...

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        • tjaalton
          Phoronix Member
          • Mar 2010
          • 75

          #5
          No, you can't just download fglrx and hope to be able to use it, since it doesn't support xserver 1.18 which entered xenial yesterday..

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          • davidbepo
            Senior Member
            • Nov 2014
            • 938

            #6
            Originally posted by Master5000 View Post
            Morons.... Linux progresses while going back in time. Next version: support for opengl 2.0.
            go to troll elsewhere

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            • Pecisk
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2014
              • 215

              #7
              Considering all the pain fglrx brings to everyone this is very smart choice. I hope Ubuntu devs will follow up with pledge to update Mesa, LLVM and kernel so AMD graphics cards users can get descent support down the line (especially regarding AMDGPU driver and RadeonSI mesa improvements). I believe they will do so as Ubuntu have flexed their rules about updating LTS quite a bit. Also considering that flgrx is planned to be marked as legacy by AMD themselves in year's time (and thus moving to AMDGPU with shared kernel driver and binary Vulkan driver), it just makes sense to do that for LTS.

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              • nir2142
                Junior Member
                • Feb 2009
                • 44

                #8
                what a poor decision

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                • Pecisk
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2014
                  • 215

                  #9
                  Originally posted by ernstp View Post
                  Now if we only could have OpenGL 4.3 at least...
                  4.3 for RadeonSI will happen in this year's time definitely (compute shaders work is already arriving for Nouveau). Will 16.04 LTS will be upgraded to it - highly likely, considering it might not require LLVM and kernel upgrade.

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                  • mmstick
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2012
                    • 1121

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Master5000 View Post
                    Morons.... Linux progresses while going back in time. Next version: support for opengl 2.0.
                    I've been using the open source drivers on all my AMD graphics cards since 2013. According to glxinfo on my laptop, we are very far away from OpenGL 2, and have been for years.

                    Code:
                    OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD KABINI (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.7.1)
                    OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.1.2
                    OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.10

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