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#1 2016-08-24 12:01:25

nephilimrising
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Registered: 2016-08-24
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Ati drivers for new kernel and xorg

I am sorry for the dumb question but i am missing quite a lot of knowledge. I have no idea what is Xorg  dont know why are there 5000 drivers for Ati. I know that FGLRX works good for me. In manjaro installation was easy but here i cant understand the process.
So my question is: i am currently with testing repo enabled, kernel 4.7. All is updated. I want to install best driver for my 7790. I would prefer the beast i know so FGLRX is with priority. What should i do?I know that AMDGPU/-PRO may be better option but i know that its not ready for other distros than *buntu. Radeon driver is crashing every time i try to play so also not an option(power management is also  bad).
Thanks in advance!

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#2 2016-08-24 12:16:36

Lone_Wolf
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Re: Ati drivers for new kernel and xorg

fglrx is usually referred to as Catalyst .

i am currently with testing repo enabled, kernel 4.7.

If you want to use catalyst with few problems :
disable testing repo and switch to linux-lts ( catalyst has problems with newer kernels and very few people are able to patch catalyst to solve those)
accept you'll be stuck at xorg 1.17.x FOREVER
accept you'll never get a new improved catalyst version

read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg and post "lspci -k" output so we get an idea what hardware your system has.

Also read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI & https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst

Then tell us which driver you want to use.


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#3 2016-08-24 15:43:40

ewaller
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Re: Ati drivers for new kernel and xorg

nephilimrising wrote:

I have no idea what is Xorg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Server  (Second hit on Google)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg (First hit on Google)


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#4 2016-08-24 21:01:04

chappjc
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Registered: 2015-09-23
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Re: Ati drivers for new kernel and xorg

Lone_Wolf wrote:

fglrx is usually referred to as Catalyst .

i am currently with testing repo enabled, kernel 4.7.

If you want to use catalyst with few problems :
disable testing repo and switch to linux-lts ( catalyst has problems with newer kernels and very few people are able to patch catalyst to solve those)

I wish I had followed this.  Linux 4.7 breaks catalyst and now I have to figure out how to downgrade my system.

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