AMD Catalyst 15.5 Beta Linux Driver Surfaces

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 15.5 Beta Linux Driver Surfaces

AMD is finally out with a big Catalyst Linux driver update!..

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Catalyst-15.5-Linux

[Isedonde]

101 > 20.

I don't think it's a decimal point.

[oleid]

101 > 20.

I don't think it's a decimal point.

Indeed, that wouldn't make sense. Otherwise kernel 3.19 would be older than 3.2. So maybe Civ BE is workling now, who knows?

[d2kx]

Download (Generic): http://support.amd.com/en-us/downloa...p?os=Linux+x86

Download (Ubuntu .deb): http://support.amd.com/en-us/downloa...=Ubuntu+x86+64

[dungeon]

Only flagship Carrizo's pciid is there... probably someone at Computex wants to run it on SLED12

[eydee]

Bioshock not even mentioned in the release notes. Anyone tried it on a pre-GCN GPU with this release?

EDIT: Nope, it's a re-versioned driver again. A shame really.

[mao_dze_dun]

I'm not sure I feel like messing up my radeonsi + kernel 4.1 setup just to test it out. But if one of you guys is in the testing mood I'd be happy to know if there is a change in general gaming performance or all we're getting after half an year are 2 minor fixes.

[dungeon]

I'm not sure I feel like messing up my radeonsi + kernel 4.1 setup just to test it out. But if one of you guys is in the testing mood I'd be happy to know if there is a change in general gaming performance or all we're getting after half an year are 2 minor fixes.

For general users there is no changelog nedeed just newer snapshot to try so hopefully in general something gets improved... but yeah for customers there is a changelog

[SilverMachine]

What a disappointment.. A 6 month wait and they don't even support newer kernels. I guess AMD want's me to buy an nVidia next.

[matszpk]

And only one new feature: support for SLED 12.