OpenSUSE Ends Support For Binary AMD Graphics Driver

[Passso]

Bullshit. You don't need a newer GPU to pack a driver. Any mediocre packager can pack whatever he/she wants without having the hardware to use the built packages.


It doesn't matter the format: .zip, .tar.gz, .deb, whatever. If you can extract them, you can re-package them.

Just a bunch of excuses.

Those who want the AMDGPU-PRO driver on non-Debian distros can go to Arch.

Yeah Arch is for real men who compile and make their own package and don't need GPU. Arch is for Chuck Norris! Hey you bitch, use Arch or I kick your ass!!!

[Passso]

goodbye fglrx.

And goodbye my 3 years old laptop with an integrated AMD gpu, once again... Da fuck...

[FireBurn]

And goodbye my 3 years old laptop with an integrated AMD gpu, once again... Da fuck...

But wouldn't you be much better of using the open driver anyway? At least for video decoding anyway. You're GPU will either support GL4.5 if it's SI or newer or be stuck on GL3.3 until there's emulated fp64 suport. It'll work with the latest Xorg and work with Wayland. I even think performance was on parity - but maybe Michael could do some benchmarks on the older parts and the last released fglrx driver

[Passso]

But wouldn't you be much better of using the open driver anyway? At least for video decoding anyway. You're GPU will either support GL4.5 if it's SI or newer or be stuck on GL3.3 until there's emulated fp64 suport. It'll work with the latest Xorg and work with Wayland. I even think performance was on parity - but maybe Michael could do some benchmarks on the older parts and the last released fglrx driver

Sure I would love too. But AMDGPU is not compatible, mesa does not recognize it, so I can only use the Intel integrated card. I switched from Ubuntu to Opensuse for this reason after they dropped fglrx

[Space Beer]

The open source driver can be written by third parties too like the redhat dev working on a Vulkan driver for AMD, or freelance programmers sponsored by a crowdfunding.

Yes, I know. But it's a shame this is still an issue. It's been almost 3 years since AMD presented Kaveri, HSA and stuff, with Calc, Corel, Luxmark... benchmarks, promoting their Fusion/HSA architecture. It works (worked) well with fglrx, I could render image in Blender using both IGP and dGPU. Now if I want to upgrade to new OS version (and current one will be EOL soon), I won't have that feature. I mean, they could at least add some basic openCL support in opensource driver. I know they plan to do that, but now when fglrx can't be used with new Xorg and kernel versions, and amdgpu-pro is Ubunty and RHEL and GCN1.1+ only (officially), it just doesn't look nice

Though non-Ubuntu linux users who need openCL/fglrx/amgdpu-pro are probably less than 0,5% of total number. And company which didn't make any profit for years and struggles to survive should focus on other 99,5 % of their user base.

[starshipeleven]

And goodbye my 3 years old laptop with an integrated AMD gpu, once again... Da fuck...

Can you say what the problem is with open drivers? I suppose it's a switchable graphics laptop, those do have issues with open drivers.

[Space Beer]

The new launch will extend driver support to all AMD discrete graphics cards that are based on GCN architecture (so from AMD HD 7000-series and newer) but also gives Linux official FreeSync 1.0 support.. Supported operating systems for this are Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04, RHEL 6.8 / 7.2 / 7.3, and SLED/SLES 12 SP2.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10894/amd-delivers-crimson-relive-yearly-feature-update-for-radeon-gamers-and-professionals

SLED 12 SP2 support means Leap 42.2 will be there soon?

[bridgman]

Sure I would love too. But AMDGPU is not compatible, mesa does not recognize it, so I can only use the Intel integrated card. I switched from Ubuntu to Opensuse for this reason after they dropped fglrx

Which hardware do you have ? Might be that you should be using radeon rather than amdgpu.

Is there a bug ticket open somewhere for the problem so I don't have to ask a bunch of questions you might have already answered ?

Thanks,
John

[Passso]

Can you say what the problem is with open drivers? I suppose it's a switchable graphics laptop, those do have issues with open drivers.

Yes it is a switchable. I used to switch it manually to save battery, now only Intel works under Ubuntu.

Which hardware do you have ? Might be that you should be using radeon rather than amdgpu.

Is there a bug ticket open somewhere for the problem so I don't have to ask a bunch of questions you might have already answered ?

Thanks,
John

Thx for your answer, here is the lspci :

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] (rev ff)

From Ubuntu's forum the AMD card is not supported anymore.

[Amarildo]

I just want to point out that running at 250 fps is not any worse than 500 fps. Yes, there's a number that ends up being lower, but it's not any worse at all in any way.
On the other hand, going from 70 fps to 100 fps is a worthwhile difference that can be important.

I forgot to mention: the 500 FPS was just an indicative of how both Windows and FGLRX can extract the most out of my hardware, while Mesa isn't able to do so yet in many games.