Catalyst 14.6 Beta Now Available For AMD Linux Gamers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Catalyst 14.6 Beta Now Available For AMD Linux Gamers

Since writing about the features of the Catalyst 14.6 Beta earlier today, the x86/x86_64 proprietary Linux driver has surfaced on a third-party web-site for those wishing to try out this latest AMD Linux graphics driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTcwMjA

[Guest]

Mirror: https://mega.co.nz/#!08s1iQAJ!-ELVok...OObR45JzUdLkKM

[Guest]

Doesn't seem to support kernel 3.15rc7 out of the box (I'll try that one patch for 3.14+ support):

/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/14.200/build/make.log

DKMS make.log for fglrx-14.200 for kernel 3.15.0-031500rc7-lowlatency (x86_64)
Tue May 27 12:19:00 EDT 2014
AMD kernel module generator version 2.1
doing Makefile based build for kernel 2.6.x and higher
rm -rf *.c *.h *.o *.ko *.a .??* *.symvers
make -C /lib/modules/3.15.0-031500rc7-lowlatency/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/14.200/build/2.6.x modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.15.0-031500rc7-lowlatency'
CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/fglrx/14.200/build/2.6.x/firegl_public.o
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/14.200/build/2.6.x/firegl_public.c: In function 'KCL_GetEffectiveUid':
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/14.200/build/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:1787:5: error: incompatible types when returning type 'kuid_t' but 'KCL_TYPE_Uid' was expected
return current_euid();
^
/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/14.200/build/2.6.x/firegl_public.c:1793:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
}
^
make[2]: *** [/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/14.200/build/2.6.x/firegl_public.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/lib/dkms/fglrx/14.200/build/2.6.x] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.15.0-031500rc7-lowlatency'
make: *** [kmod_build] Error 2
build failed with return value 2

[Guest]

Doesn't seem to support kernel 3.15rc7 out of the box (I'll try that one patch for 3.14+ support)

Works fine with the patch.



Tested on Xubuntu 14.04. Don't seem to see any new settings or anything. Not entirely certain, but Dota 2 seems to have slightly better framerate.

Should also mention that if you're using Hybrid graphics on Ubuntu 14.04, you may want to stop gpu-manager from interfering with xorg.conf

[Kemosabe]

How does Witcher2 perform with 14.6?

[d2kx]

Now avaible from AMD:

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86#amd-catalyst-packages

[majod]

Open Issues:

DOTA 2 may hang while playing on the AMD Radeon 7900 or AMD Radeon R9 280X

It also hanged on my 7850.



The whole story is: I installed the driver with the package method on Ubuntu 14.04. Rebooted. Wow. I was really impressed. I had tear-free desktop with Catalyst. Finally! Everything was smooth and worked and my fans are sooo quiet. Then I tried Dota 2. Had about 20fps until the system hanged completely (about 1 min). Rebooted. And once again I'm welcomed with desktop tearing and enabling the Tear-free desktop results in my windows following the mouse cursor mileees away. So, either this will be solved until the final release, or I seriously can't use this card anymore.

[gutigen]

How does Witcher2 perform with 14.6?

With 7770, no 5 seconds long lag spikes anymore, but performance is still maybe 20% of what I had under Windows last time I had one on this machine.

[Guest]

I have a under/overscan option for my laptop's built-in screen now (didn't check if it existed with 14.4).

[Gerii]

Still having severe graphics corruption/black screens when playing videos over a certain player size.
But KDE animations feel a bit smoother with the new driver on my R9 290.