Hi all, this thread is to inform users (and also helpers around here) that I decided after several reports of failure to retire completely FGLX support for 42.2.
This mean I’ve wiped today all the binaries builded during RC stage, and removed also the one click link for 42.2
In brief, fgrlx backtrace the kernel, segfault xorg and sddm
So I decide to protect user’s computer by removing the rpms, I have no knowledge about to debug those problem, and patching closed source is somewhat tricky anyway.
If someone still want to trash hard its installation, he can build the rpm by picking all the content of the raw-src present on http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx/raw-src/
The good news, is that more the time pass, more radeon and newer amdgpu open-source driver are getting better. And more important, you can report bugs, and have a great chance to get a fix.
Don’t ask me about the amdgpu-pro drivers those exists only for Ubuntu or RHEL. As I have no hardware to test them, nor have the need of them, it’s going to be very very very low on my priority list of contributions.
Hi Bruno
Thank you so much for your efforts over the years in making the fglrx package available for openSUSE users.
I must admit, the bugs I raised for amdgpu and xf86-video-amdgpu where fixed and quietly backported into the Tumbleweed kernel, so yes if you have issues with the open source drivers, bug reports are good
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:16:01 +0000, bruno friedmann wrote:
> Hi all, this thread is to inform users (and also helpers around here)
> that I decided after several reports of failure to retire completely
> FGLX support for 42.2.
> This mean I’ve wiped today all the binaries builded during RC stage, and
> removed also the one click link for 42.2
>
> In brief, fgrlx backtrace the kernel, segfault xorg and sddm
> So I decide to protect user’s computer by removing the rpms, I have no
> knowledge about to debug those problem, and patching closed source is
> somewhat tricky anyway.
> If someone still want to trash hard its installation, he can build the
> rpm by picking all the content of the raw-src present on
> http://geeko.ioda.net/mirror/amd-fglrx/raw-src/
>
> The good news, is that more the time pass, more radeon and newer amdgpu
> open-source driver are getting better. And more important, you can
> report bugs, and have a great chance to get a fix.
>
> Don’t ask me about the amdgpu-pro drivers those exists only for Ubuntu
> or RHEL. As I have no hardware to test them, nor have the need of them,
> it’s going to be very very very low on my priority list of
> contributions.
Thanks for all your work on this over the years, Bruno - I had wondered
about this, as I have been using fglrx on my 42.1 installation, but
lately Chrome hasn’t been using it for webgl (they’ve disabled it in the
code completely), so it seems that the amdgpu driver is probably where I
need to go.
Well that’s interesting. Every time I upgrade to a newer version of openSuSE, my video breaks and it takes me days to fix it. Now that I just got a new ATI HD6245, and installed Leap 42.2 I’m screwed! I do thank you for all your hard work. Question is, when will the video graphics be fixed? I’m running Gallium at 1024. This is not acceptable. I’ve been using openSuSE since 6.1…Any thoughts? Oh, now I’ve got to go to the AMD site and smack them a bit. Wow! What a mess. I guess I had better go buy an Nvidia card.
installed Leap 42.2 I’m screwed! … Question is, when will the video graphics be fixed? I’m running Gallium at 1024. This is not acceptable. I’ve been using openSuSE since 6.1…Any thoughts? Oh, now I’ve got to go to the AMD site and smack them a bit. Wow! What a mess. I guess I had better go buy an Nvidia card.
The name that you provided above is synonymous with an older family of adapters (from circa 2011) that should be well severed by the oss radeon driver stack. What problem(s) are you experiencing that you would want the prop driver instead?
are you telling me that, if i install leap 42.1, can i use the fglrx driver?
i am asking this because i get more 30-40% more power consumption if i use radeon oss driver instead of fglrx.
this is pretty confusing because i red on the and site that fglrx works only on kernel <3.19 and xorg <1.17.
thanx!
Hi
Sure, you can install it on 42.1 (for at least a few months before EOL), however if you set the radeon power to low should see improvements as well as 4.4 kernel improvements. Run powertop to refine.
Not a problem for 42.1 as xorg is 7.6_1.17.2 (1.17) for kernel we have patches in the pre-build rpm that allow them to normally build for <=4.4 kernel.
But is it a long term solution, certainly not 42.1 will be eol in May 2017, not sure I will continue to maintain the repo online afterwards.
