(Back story of gratitude that can be ignored: After facing limited capabilities and high expenses of Mac hardware, and almost succumbing to accepting a possible reality of needing to run Win 10 for my peripherals (MOTU M4) to work (due to unreliable and complicated audio setup in Ubuntu)... in looking at kernels for solid audio support, found my way to AVL-MX21 and just thrilled it's so solid out of the box, testing out OBS Studio (especially for audio that just works). AV Linux is far preferred over Mac, Win, or Ubuntu, and I hope to move to AVL-MX21 for my main AV workstation OS.)
The question: what would be the suggested way to install AMD graphics drivers?
- For this AV workstation, I have an older machine and graphics card (i7-4790, AMD Radeon R5 240 [2GB] dedicated graphics, 16GB RAM, SSD+HDD), and the performance (including graphics) is actually good enough for my needs under Ubuntu 20 (after installing AMD drivers) and Win 10 (again, after AMD drivers), so I know good video performance is possible on the hardware. (It's just the audio support is a mess in Ubuntu, and I would do almost anything to not run Win.)
- The problem is that dragging windows around is laggy on my 4K monitor in AVL-MX21. I think that installing proprietary AMD drivers or equivalent will solve this. I run into issues installing AMD drivers, though.
- The AMD R5 240 driver is downloadable from AMD as .zip and .deb, and there is even a PPA someone makes available. And the AMD drivers work under Ubuntu. But all methods fail for me in AVL-MX21 (I think because of the later kernel in AVL-MX21?).
Trying AMD-provided Linux installer:
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$ cd fglrx-15.302/
demo@avl-mxe-live:~/Downloads/fglrx-15.302
$ ls
amd-driver-installer-15.302-x86.x86_64.run check.sh doc
$ ./check.sh
Detected configuration:
Architecture: x86_64 (64-bit)
X Server: XServer
$ sudo ./amd-driver-installer-15.302-x86.x86_64.run
Created directory fglrx-install.vKsfYh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing AMD Proprietary Driver-15.302...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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AMD Proprietary Driver Installer/Packager
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error: Detected X Server version 'XServer 1.20.13_64a' is not supported. Supported versions are X.Org 6.9 or later, up to XServer 1.10 (default:v2:x86_64:lib32:XServer 1.20.13_64a:none:5.15.0-10.1-liquorix-amd64:)
Installation will not proceed.
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.vKsfYh
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$ sudo apt install ./fglrx_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'fglrx' instead of './fglrx_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64_ub_14.01.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
fglrx : Depends: fglrx-core but it is not installable
Depends: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta2) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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demo@avl-mxe-live:~/Downloads/fglrx-15.302
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found
Questions:
- Ideas or thoughts?
- I understand it's no fault of AVL-MX21 if AMD proprietary drivers don't support the latest Linux Kernels, e.g. 15 or whatever. But I think there should be a way to run AVL-MX21 even on an older AMD graphics card. The discrete graphics makes a difference for my application.
- Is there a well-known alternative to AMD proprietary graphics for AV Linux?
- For example, is there something like "mesa" graphics (just based on reading) that would is easy to install in AV Linux MX-21 and would work well enough?