AMD Radeon R9 video card

[geezer]

New computer. had nvidia in old computer - constant source of trouble, never could use.

So with the new computer I choose one with the AMD radeon R9 cards instead. Under windows 8.1 it uses the Catalyst s/w. The AMD radeon web site lists the Catalyst s/w as available for 14.04, but not 15.05.

Is the Catalyst s/w usable under 15.04 and where can I find instructions/hints/guidlines/info on using it?

Your experiences would be helpful also.

[LinkBot]

BinaryDriverHowto/AMD: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD


Thread: Which Proprietary AMD Display Driver Is In This Release?: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...n-This-Release

[geezer]

BinaryDriverHowto/AMD: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD


Thread: Which Proprietary AMD Display Driver Is In This Release?: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...n-This-Release

Thank You.

[geezer]

The Ubuntu web page refers to two s/w drivers, fglrx and Catalyst. It is not clear to me if they the same thing or very different.

[claydoh]

Fglrx and catalyst are the same thing.
I dunno why the different names, though.

The easiest way to see what Amd drivers are available is to go into system settings and look at the driver manager, just like you would for nvidia stuff, and select the recommended driver there to install it.

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[OneLine]

Package names

AMD Catalyst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Catalyst

Linux

...fglrx (an abbreviation for "FireGL and Radeon for X")...

There are other Catalyst packages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalyst_(software)

[OneLine]

Recommended/fglrx/fglrx-updates

KDE System Settings > Driver Manager.



Open source driver is recommended.


fglrx vs. fglrx-updates

The fglrx driver is the latest driver at the Ubuntu release moment. The updated packages are named with the '-updates' ending:

fglrx-updates
fglrx-amdcccle-updates

Example with the cli

sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates
[sudo] password for ...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following extra packages will be installed:
dkms fglrx-updates-core lib32gcc1 libc6-i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dkms fglrx-amdcccle-updates fglrx-updates fglrx-updates-core lib32gcc1
libc6-i386
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 117 MB of archives.
After this operation, 490 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

After the installation:

sudo amdconfig --initial

reboot

Check:

fglrxinfo

display: :0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series 
OpenGL version string: 4.4.13374 Compatibility Profile Context 15.20.1013

Earlier Kubuntu forums: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...-Radeon-driver

[OneLine]

Tools & what ever

Program to monitor GPU temp/usage for AMD cards?: http://askubuntu.com/questions/27741...-for-amd-cards
--> http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Aticonfighelp


Ubuntu 12.04 and KDE, graphical temperature monitor for GPU: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18592...onitor-for-gpu

Seems to work with the Vivid.



Notes:

Packages needed: plasma-scriptengine-superkaramba and krosspython

[geezer]

Thanks - that answers a lot of questions.

Used package manager to install Attachment 1 (in the other forum I belong to there is a box to click to put attachments/images inline with the text - haven't figured out how to do here)

Anyway ran : sudo aticonfig --initial

The output was:

Uninitialised file found, configuring.
Using /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Saving back-up to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-0


then ran:
aticonfig --lsa
* 0. 01:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
1. 02:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series

* - Default adapter
terry@Home-Net:~$ aticonfig --lscc
X server not active, unable to query CrossFire candidates.
terry@Home-Net:~$ fglrxinfo
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 155 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
Value in failed request: 0x0
Serial number of failed request: 17
Current serial number in output stream: 18

All of that means nothing to me except that the initialization process mucked things up.

Fortunately with the AMD cards the display is still usable. The reason I stopped using the nvideo drivers and refused to buy another computer with them is because doing that with the nvideo driverfs always really messed up the display.

Does the above mean something to someone and how do I go about fixing it?

[geezer]

Rebooted - sometimes that fixes some problems.

Rebooted and ran fglrxinfo - output indicated that the driver was running okay now.

Then ran Catalyst Control Center and it popped up nice and pretty.

Seems the reboot fixed whatever was wrong again.

Ran the Catalyst Control Center (Admin mode) and enabled Crossfire. Got a notice that a "restart" (Reboot?) was needed to apply change.

Okay, now the reboot to get the initial changes to apply makes sense.

Thank You Oneline.!!!