<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello, <br><br></div>In order to ask my question I will explain first the motives that lead to it, so please bear with me, or just jump to "THE QUESTION" below :)<br><br>I have seen that on May 14th the fglrx-driver has been dropped from unstable, and in the removals file [1] the reason given is: "ROM; EOL, does not fit Debian and superseded by amdgpu"<br><br>[1] <a href="https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt">https://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt</a><br clear="all"><div><div><br></div><div>I would love to be wrong, but from what I have read and seen in some colleagues computers/laptops, the opensource driver (as much as I would love to use it) does not take advantage the full potential of the GPU in that it only seems to have 2d acceleration (with no or very limited 3D acceleration), and from a computational point of view some applications/programs such as oclhashcat are not able to make the GPU work in the way it would be expected (I don't know if this would be, for example, oclhashcat's fault in that it expects the proprietary driver, or the free driver's fault in that it does not (as of yet) fully expose the capabilities of the GPU). <br><br></div><div>The fglrx-driver packages that were in unstable, as far as I know and tried (I mean, in my experience), were not truly usable in a "sid-based" Debian, since upgrading to sid would also upgrade the xserver-xorg packages, and the latest Xorg version does not provide any of the xorg-video-abi-xx that fglrx-driver depends on. As far as I can tell, this is an inconsistency between the upstream ATI/AMD driver and the Xorg release, not something Debian-specific. <br><br></div><div>So, finally, I arrive to THE QUESTION I wanted to ask, which is whether dropping the fglrx-drivers is a definitive decision from the Fglrx packaging team, or whether when (and if) AMD releases new drivers for Linux with less problems, and especially while the free drivers are not a viable alternative to fully take advantage of the GPU capabilities, these new drivers would get packaged again as fglrx-driver.<br><br></div><div>I do use the GPU and would love to harness all it has to offer (I did not get to choose whether the laptop came with nVidia or ATI/AMD), so while I am using the current fglrx-drivers in stable I would like to know what could I reasonably expect in the future. <br><br></div><div>Thank you very much in advance,<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jonás Andradas<br></div></div></div>
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