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More worrying than this to me is that they're removing the fglrx driver. I'd love to use the open source drivers, but the radeon and amdgpu drivers do not seem
by stormbrew 11y ago
More worrying than this to me is that they're removing the fglrx driver. I'd love to use the open source drivers, but the radeon and amdgpu drivers do not seem to be getting equal amounts of love and amdgpu only applies to really new video cards.
- talideon 11y agoMy understanding is that it's not that they want to as such, but that their hand has been forced on the issue, especially given that this is an LTS release, and they've been supporting fglrx a lot longer than many other distros. The fglrx driver is so horribly ancient that there's really no sensible way of supporting it. Apparently, there'll be a more suitable driver coming out of AMD some time this summer.
- chippy 11y agoWould it be correct in saying that flgrx is still available, but it's not in the base distribution, and that it's been replaced in the distro by another package? In other words is it up to the user to install the desired graphics driver that they want? For example, the ones from AMD/ATIs site?
- rlpb 11y agoNo. fglrx does not work with the latest version of X.org that 16.04 ships.
- talideon 11y agoXorg 1.18, which is what 16.04 is shipping with, doesn't support fglrx, which is why Canonical can't continue to support it.
- merb 11y agoAnd that is just too bad since the radeon driver couldn't detect the Ratio of my monitor with a VGA -> DVI adapter (yes the monitor is ancient 720p only)
- stormbrew 11y agoThe irony is that the machine I need it on is only a couple of years old and has a pitcairn chipset, but something about the way it's set up just does not play nice with the radeon driver and it crashes constantly. fglrx works fine, though. Do you have a link regarding this other new driver from AMD, btw?