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catalyst kernel patches
Posted: 03 May 2016, 04:11
by brokenman
If anybody can find AMD catalyst patches for the 4.5.x series kernel I would love to know. I can't get it to compile on my R7 series AMD card.
EDIT:
Looks like the driver won't work (as yet) on xorg versions greater than 1.17. I am running 1.18.
Re: catalyst kernel patches
Posted: 03 May 2016, 05:56
by fanthom
Re: catalyst kernel patches
Posted: 03 May 2016, 17:09
by fullmoonremix
Salutations...
I'll look around but consider both nVidia and AMD are notorious for lack of Linux graphics support.
Unfortunately... generic (xorg) support is better than both it's proprietary counterparts.
"Best Regards"...
Re: catalyst kernel patches
Posted: 04 May 2016, 00:58
by brokenman
I don't see any specific mention of xorg versions on the link you provided. I also don't see anyone getting anywhere with xorg-1.18+. I guess nothing can be done for now. Thanks.
Re: catalyst kernel patches
Posted: 04 May 2016, 01:45
by ncmprhnsbl
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ca ... positories pretty much tells it...
have noticed xorg radeon seems to have improved in recent times... at least with my oldish card(5730)
Re: catalyst kernel patches
Posted: 04 May 2016, 08:55
by fanthom
@brokenman
AMD used to deliver updated Catalyst driver before each Ubuntu release (sometimes it was beta driver). Its not the case anymore as AMD is moving to the mixed model now:
opensource amdgpu driver in the kernel + closed source userspace component. This is handy as you dont have to deal with recompilation of the AMD driver every time the kernel changes (userspace part is kernel independent).
More info:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... tegy&num=1
Re: catalyst kernel patches
Posted: 05 May 2016, 02:51
by brokenman
Great stuff. Thanks Fanthom.