dickster Report post Posted October 3, 2017 (edited) Running into all kinds of problems. Anyone have a simple how-to to get the AMD drivers installed? Mint 18 Sonya Edited October 3, 2017 by dickster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nigsy Report post Posted October 4, 2017 Quote AMD Catalyst (fglrx) drivers The AMD Catalyst (fglrx) drivers are not compatible with Xorg 1.18, which is the version used in Linux Mint 18. These drivers are proprietary and so their code is not available. AMD indicated they no longer wanted to support them and urged their customers to use open-source drivers instead. If you are using an ATI GPU in Linux Mint 18, the operating system will either select the Radeon or AMDGPU drivers for you, and these are installed by default. Found the above on this site: https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_sarah_mate.php Had a look on some other sites and it appears that AMD is not playing nicely with Linux! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
terry1966 Report post Posted October 4, 2017 (edited) to be honest dickster, unless you're having issues with the default open source driver i never bother installing amd's own drivers any more, i do install nvidia's own drivers though. Edited October 4, 2017 by terry1966 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dickster Report post Posted October 4, 2017 Don't know if I can get [email protected] to run on the default driver. That's the only reason I'm trying to get AMDs drivers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
terry1966 Report post Posted October 4, 2017 ok. how you getting on? see if this link helps :- https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=229229 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dickster Report post Posted October 5, 2017 Didn't work for some reason. I may be stuck waiting for them to come out with decent drivers for my card. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dickster Report post Posted October 7, 2017 Ok, thanks for trying, terry. Went backwards to Mint 17.2 and was able to install the Catalyst 14.9 drivers. Now folding, but waiting to see what PPD I can get from this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
caintry_boy Report post Posted October 7, 2017 I'm averaging about 100-135k PPD dickster on mine in Windows....not O/C'd. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dickster Report post Posted October 8, 2017 (edited) This card was doing good on Win10. Judging by what I see so far, I'll be lucky to get 10k PPD with linux. But NOT going back to M$. Edited October 8, 2017 by dickster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
caintry_boy Report post Posted October 8, 2017 Something wrong...you should get more PPD out of Linux than Windows... 'Course it may have to do with the fact it's an AMD card... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dickster Report post Posted October 9, 2017 That's the problem. AMD doesn't do well folding with the drivers that are out there. And they aren't interested in putting better drivers out for linux. Looks like my PPD is going to be way down from now on since I'm not going back to windows or buying an nvidia card. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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