[SOLVED] AMD Catalyst 15.9 and Slackware Linux 14.1 current x86_64

ahc_fan · 10-26-2015, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ReaperX7

Did you try driconf and enable vertical sync to lock the refresh rate at 60Hz (or whatever your monitor supports)?

I did not know about driconf. I'll try it out.

ahc_fan · 10-26-2015, 01:21 PM

mattallmill, your instructions worked out splendidly. I now have catalyst installed and, as far as I can tell, working without a hitch. Thanks for sharing this!

1337_powerslacker · 10-26-2015, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ahc_fan

mattallmill, your instructions worked out splendidly. I now have catalyst installed and, as far as I can tell, working without a hitch. Thanks for sharing this!

You are quite welcome. Glad to help!

Regards,

Matt

MDKDIO · 10-28-2015, 11:21 AM

Thank you mattallmill!!

Guess waiting a few days pays off (in my case, been busy elsewhere), as it tends to be, there's always someone else who had the problem before me

I'll try your steps as well (just need the kernel etc sorted first).

MDKDIO · 10-28-2015, 01:43 PM

Guess this one can be closed as solved

Went with kernel 4.2.5, and it worked like a charm

Thank you very much mattallmill!! Much appreciated!!

/J

1337_powerslacker · 10-29-2015, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by MDKDIO

Thank you mattallmill!!

Guess waiting a few days pays off (in my case, been busy elsewhere), as it tends to be, there's always someone else who had the problem before me

I'll try your steps as well (just need the kernel etc sorted first).

This started out as a sort of personal challenge for me. The 4.2 kernel had been panicking when it first came out, and I thought I'd give it another try. Then I thought to search for the patches for the Catalyst driver via Arch, and modified my procedure to apply the patches for Slackware. I was very pleased with the results.

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Originally Posted by MDKDIO

Guess this one can be closed as solved

Went with kernel 4.2.5, and it worked like a charm

Thank you very much mattallmill!! Much appreciated!!

/J

You're welcome! I'm glad my little project was able to help a couple of other people out as well. It's always good to know that my personal project is beneficial.

1337_powerslacker · 10-29-2015, 04:34 PM

According to Phoronix, AMD's planning on a big driver update, one's that supposedly supports the 4.x kernel (No word on if it goes to 4.2.x or not). So, in all probability, this fix will only be temporary. Nevertheless, even as a temporary fix, it was definitely worth doing.

MDKDIO · 10-29-2015, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by mattallmill

According to Phoronix, AMD's planning on a big driver update, one's that supposedly supports the 4.x kernel (No word on if it goes to 4.2.x or not). So, in all probability, this fix will only be temporary. Nevertheless, even as a temporary fix, it was definitely worth doing.

Thank you very much for sharing that info!!

/J

1337_powerslacker · 10-29-2015, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by MDKDIO

Thank you very much for sharing that info!!

/J

You're welcome. I thought you'd like to know that, so you could keep an eye out for it. More than likely, one of the major Linux tech news sites like Phoronix will let you know when it's released.

1337_powerslacker · 11-13-2015, 07:56 PM

In case anyone is interested in patching the existing Catalyst driver for the newest kernel, 4.3, I have attached the patchset for it. Follow my tutorial to patch it.

Regards,

Matt

marcinblondyn · 03-02-2020, 01:03 PM

Hello,
So I have this pc with ati hd7970 and trying to play some 3d games on my slackware 14.2 with kernel 4.4... Will Patch for kernel 4.3 still work?
Thanks in advance!

bassmadrigal · 03-02-2020, 05:39 PM

No, the patch won't be enough, because the Xorg in 14.2 is too new for the Catalyst drivers. You can't install them in Slackware 14.2 unless you can find some way to downgrade Xorg without breaking the rest of the system (it would probably require a lot of recompiling of many different packages that rely on Xorg and there's no guarantee it would work).

But the open source radeon driver that is included with 14.2 is usually enough for most cards that it supports. What issues are you running into?

marcinblondyn · 03-07-2020, 04:37 PM

Last time I was installing linux drivers was for Nvidia geforce 4 MMX 440 on red hat 9. So smooth... but now I would like to do the same with my radeon hd 7970 and slackware 14.2 and don't know how to achieve best performance. I would like to play 3d games. Is radeon driver really best choice?