[sf-lug] /firmware/radeon

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Dec 20 20:49:52 PST 2015


Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):

> On Sun, 2015-12-20 at 20:43 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> > If you eventually cannot get the open-source 'radeon' driver to work,
> > don't forget, as a last resort, you _can_ switch to ATI's proprietary,
> > binary-only 'fglrx' aka AMD Catalyst driver.
> 
> No, you cannot.

Cryptic much?  ;->

Are you saying fglrx isn't available any more, or what?  (I'm actually
trying to help, here.  What are _you_ trying to do, Daniel?)

I haven't resorted to fglrx in a dog's age, and even at my place of
employment went to great lengths to avoid needing it.  If you have
current information on that matter, feel free to post it.





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