However, if you have a really recent AMD card, you may want to try out AMD's own offering. Oibaf's driver seems like a great replacement to fglrx, and it probably is.

They claim to be optimized, so you could see an real boost in performance.

They support newer OpenGL and OpenCL versions, so stuff that depends on those will work.

They work for AMD, NVIDIA and Intel, so you can even try them out if you dislike NVIDIA's proprietary drivers or are hoping for more performance from your Intel card.

Maybe you don't want to go through the trouble of backing up data and reinstalling. Maybe it doesn't have compatibility for that new application you use so much. Luckily, it is completely possible to downgrade Xorg to 1.16 (on 14.04), so you can still use fglrx.

Please Note: 14.04.5 brought with it Xorg 1.18, which is what causes the problem in 16.04 to begin with.

You get to use fglrx and get the performance you want/need.

Who knows? By that time, AMD may have decided to completely change its business model and actually provide good support.

It's still supported until 2019, so you have 2-3 more years to use it.

The first, and most obvious, is to just to downgrade to 14.04. Whatever the reason you're on 16.04 with AMD graphics, there are a few options for you.ġ. Maybe you got AMDGPU and it just isn't enough. Maybe you installed or upgraded without knowing the situation with AMD. So maybe you took the plunge, hoping you'd have the card that would get AMDGPU, but weren't so lucky. Īrticle from the first Link explains the options you have if you have Ubuntu 16.04 installed: This is, I believe, in regards to AMDGPU -Ubuntu. įrom a link from inside the above mentioned link: Why AMD GPU Users May Want to Avoid Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This might explain why there are no Ubuntu AMD Drivers after 15.04 : drivers - Ubuntu 14.04.5/16.04 and newer on AMD graphics - Ask Ubuntu.

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