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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 19.05.2016 um 20:16 schrieb Jonas
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<div>Hello, <br>
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Hi<br>
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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>
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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is: "ROM; EOL, does not fit Debian and superseded by amdgpu"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>
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<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>
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With current Linux versions and the most up to date amdgpu driver it
looks much much better. When jessie releases amdgpu should have got
a good 3D acceleration.<br>
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<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>
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But sid and testing are the next versions of Debian and the
situtation has been changed. AMD is focused now on the amdgpu driver
(it is developed by AMD) instead of fglrx.<br>
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<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>
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I think no. It is "sporadic" working and I do not think that AMD
will address such issues in the future anymore. fglrx is nearly
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<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>
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Hopefully a very good working free driver :)<br>
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<div>Thank you very much in advance,<br>
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