[Request] FGLRX driver package

[Andrea Bernabei]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Steffen Winkler <steffen-winkler at gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> after an update yesterday evening, I was greeted by a mirrored desktop
> today and the fact that I couldn't find the AMD configuration utility.
>
> After some searching and digging, I found that someone decided to
> remove fglrx from Ubuntu 16.04 and it was even published on the
> ReleaseNotes site: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#fgl
> rx [I'm pretty sure that that wasn't there two weeks ago when I
> switched to Ubuntu 16.04 Beta]
>
> I'm not sure what the reason for that is, but I'd hope someone could
> reverse that decision.
>
> Why reverse it? Without FGLRX/Catalyst AMD users don't have any way of
> running OpenGL 4.3/4.4/4.5 applications. You may say 'so install the
> package from AMD's website' to which I'd reply that I tried that but
> DKMS decided that that is a really bad idea and denied me that request.
>
> With kind regards
> Steffen Winkler
>
>
Hi Steffen,

I was also setting up a machine with AMD GPUs just yesterday and ended up
having the same problems.
I managed to get the DKMS module to build though, using the patches from
https://github.com/kolasa/fglrx-15.30.1025
but that wasn't enough, the setup still doesn't get past the lightdm login
screen.

Running Xorg -configure fails with "Failed to load module fglrxdrm"...

I'll spend some more time on it this evening, let's see if I manage to get
anywhere :)

Br,
Andrea

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