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  • Catalyst 15.3 Beta Backported To Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

    Phoronix: Catalyst 15.3 Beta Backported To Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

    While AMD has yet to make the Catalyst 15.3 Beta Linux graphics driver available for download from their web-site, they released the driver to Canonical and as such this new AMD Linux driver has been available in Ubuntu 15.04 for a few weeks. Canonical is now back-porting this proprietary driver back into Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr...

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  • #2
    Good news for AMD users, especially for recent hardware.

    Anyway I still do not really understand why some vendors make some driver for short-term/test distros then backport it, they really should stick mainly to LTS and atop of it add capabilities for more recent kernels. Did the kernel changed that much in only 1 year?...
    (btw 6 month releases are such a waste of time imo but this is not the subject...)

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    • #3
      Is this driver available for Debian Testing (or unstable/experimental) somewhere?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by turol View Post
        Is this driver available for Debian Testing (or unstable/experimental) somewhere?
        Yes, here:
        Code:
        root@Druck-Buero:/home/towo# apt-cache policy fglrx-driver
        fglrx-driver:
          Installiert:           (keine)
          Installationskandidat: 1:15.200-1.siduction.2
          Versionstabelle:
             1:15.200-1.siduction.6 0
                  1 http://packages.siduction.org/extra/ experimental/non-free amd64 Packages
             1:15.200-1.siduction.2 0
                500 http://packages.siduction.org/user/ experimental/non-free amd64 Packages
             1:14.12-1 0
                500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ experimental/non-free amd64 Packages
             1:14.9+ga14.201-2 0
                500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
                500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/non-free amd64 Packages
             1:14.4~rc1.0.apr17-2.siduction.1 0
                500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/non-free amd64 Packages
             1:12-6+point-3 0
                500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ stable/non-free amd64 Packages

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