Ubuntu 15.04 Receives Early Release Of Catalyst 15.3 Linux Driver

[mmstick]

Is any simply way to install this on Ubuntu 14.10 or any other distro?

The installer for Catalyst automatically detects what version of Ubuntu that you are using and makes a deb package for you. It's certainly a lot easier to install Catalyst on Linux than it is NVIDIA. That said, you're more than likely better off with the free and open source drivers from Oibaf's PPA.

[profoundWHALE]

You can never write inside /etc with user permission, if you can do, then your system has messed up linux permissions. A user can write to it's $HOME, /tmp (gets deleted on reboot usually), /var/tmp (permanent).

Thanks, I tend to run sudo so much that I forget when it's not needed.

[Kano]

You can never write inside /etc with user permission, if you can do, then your system has messed up linux permissions. A user can write to it's $HOME, /tmp (gets deleted on reboot usually), /var/tmp (permanent).

[profoundWHALE]

Is any simply way to install this on Ubuntu 14.10 or any other distro?

Typically I'd just add the PPA of the newest release. So I'd go into my /etc/apt/sources.list and manually add it, so say I'm running trusty and the package I want is in vivid.
Open up gedit or geany (I like geany because it remembers my tabs)

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Look at https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa to find the ppa and signing key.
Add this to the bottom:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu vivid main

(Signing key:1024R/8844C542 is what it has on the site, use the part after the /)
Run

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8844C542

Hit enter, then

sudo apt-get update

Install the package you want (in your case, fglrx) or if you're going to upgrade everything

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

So that's my method of doing it. Let me know if someone has a better method. Otherwise, if you do the

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

Hit Enter.
You'll end up getting (again, assuming you're on trusty)

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/xorg-edgers/ppa/ubuntu trusty main

a little sources.list file somewhere in another folder in /etc/apt/ that you can just change the trusty to vivid with gedit or whatever, although I don't think you need root privileges for the little file. Then just run apt-get update or whatever and then install it.

[xpris]

Is any simply way to install this on Ubuntu 14.10 or any other distro?

[Kano]

@plantroon

find ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32 \( -name libstdc++.so.6 -o -name libgcc_s.so.1 \) -exec rm -vf {} \;

Sometimes the dir changes, but basically the command can be adopted to any Steam install. Thats needed for all OSS drivers which use LLVM, Intel does not require that hack.

@grndzro

Do you really think that somebody "steals" a patch? You often find different patches and you have to pick the best in case you can't figure it out yourself. It is every time annoying as maintainer that you have to search/test that yourself first because AMD or Nvidia do not seem to like to try latest kernels.

In the Xserver case AMD is often a few month later than Nvidia. Several years ago I added a binary (much more tricky than fixing the kernel module) hack to disable a version check as it only got renamed from 7.x to 1.x but usualy this wont work now anymore. You can only wait till you get official support, and AMD only does something when Ubuntu calls em, that really sucks! And even if they have got a drivers, why is AMD too stupid to write a changelog and put a direct download link on their website, must be too hard... That AMD thinks they need to rename the package every 1-2 releases is very annoying as well if you want to create "correct" packages that download/watch the orig files with the debian/rules, Ubuntu uses the cheap way and does not provide any dl link.

[eydee]

So... Has anyone tried the new drivers? Any changes apart from the version number and xorg support?

Answering my own question after running some quick tests.

- General performance is the same as always, they don't even bother anymore
- Wine "support" seems to be fixed
- The video acceleration support introduced in 14.12 is gone/broken
- Still nowhere near windows performance, still nowhere near Radeon performance

[Peter Fodrek]

Is it transitional Catalyst? It seems to be

I was to think that AMD is to release tranbsitional Catalyst taht works using both fglrx and AMDGPU kernel driver since there were named Catalyst Omega 14.12 driver. It is because Omega is latest member in Greek alphabet. To neme something Omega means that is latest member of any list e.g. list of type of software and next will be revolutiobnary change.

Previous information that AMD is to release new Calayst before sending AMDGPU patch (that generally means no AMDGPU since 4.1 kernel) was ana pro agument of my idea.

and in this article is another one pro arument:
"This driver is significantly larger than Catalyst 14.12, the current stable release,"

And revolution became

"next Catalyst Linux driver release. This driver is needed to support the latest Linux kernel and X.Org Server of Ubuntu 15.04"

as of only 9 days after Ubuntu got 3.19 kenrel officialy we have AMD driver taht was and is yet to be extremnely uncommonm

Linux 3.19 Officially Lands For Ubuntu 15.04

Published on 03 March 2015

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php/openbenchmarking.org/result/vr.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-15.04-Linux-3.19-Lands

and it is just oabou one month since 3.19 becaome released
Linux 3.19 Kernel Released

Published on 08 February 2015

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-3.19-Kernel-Released

[Daktyl198]

Be patient Ubuntu is getting absolutely slammed. getting 50kbps DLing Ubuntu Gnome 15.04.

Isn't that why distros prefer people download via torrents? Unless you're downloading via a torrent in which case... what??

[Peter Fodrek]

Is it transitional Catalyst? It seems to be

I was to think that AMD is to release tranbsitional Catalyst taht works using both fglrx and AMDGPU kernel driver since there were named Catalyst Omega 14.12 driver. It is because Omega is latest member in Greek alphabet. To neme something Omega means that is latest member of any list e.g. list of type of software and next will be revolutiobnary change.

Previous information that AMD is to release new Calayst before sending AMDGPU patch (that generally means no AMDGPU since 4.1 kernel) was ana pro agument of my idea.

and in this article is another one pro arument:
"This driver is significantly larger than Catalyst 14.12, the current stable release,"

And revolution became

"next Catalyst Linux driver release. This driver is needed to support the latest Linux kernel and X.Org Server of Ubuntu 15.04"

as of only 9 days after Ubuntu got 3.19 kenrel officialy we have AMD driver taht was and is yet to be extremnely uncommonm

Linux 3.19 Officially Lands For Ubuntu 15.04

Published on 03 March 2015

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php/openbenchmarking.org/result/vr.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-15.04-Linux-3.19-Lands

and it is just oabou one month since 3.19 becaome released
Linux 3.19 Kernel Released

Published on 08 February 2015

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-3.19-Kernel-Released