AMD Catalyst 12.12 For Linux Released

[Bullet500]

AMD Catalyst in one single post:

1) you're lucky if you are able to install the driver and make it actually work after first reboot
2) you don't suffer a kernel panic within 1 day without doing anything special
3) you don't have issues with WINE
4) you don't suffer a freeze while watching some bullshit videos with VLC or whatever
5) get the list continued..

Dunno but haven't faced any of 1 to 4. Earlier I was on Catalyst 12.4. Now on Catalyst 12.10. Team Fortress 2 also runs fine.

WINE doesn't count anyway.

[AJSB]

Anyone knows if it works OK with Trinity APUs ?

I'm on the verge of building my 1st non-Intel rig , a kinda of "gaming HTPC" with a A10-5700 or A10-5800K and i'm wondering if i regret it....


TIA,
AJSB

[PsynoKhi0]

Dunno but haven't faced any of 1 to 4. Earlier I was on Catalyst 12.4. Now on Catalyst 12.10. Team Fortress 2 also runs fine.

WINE doesn't count anyway.

Welcome to the Phoronix forums, remember not to feed the trolls ;-)

[ArtKun]

Anyone knows if it works OK with Trinity APUs ?

I'm on the verge of building my 1st non-Intel rig , a kinda of "gaming HTPC" with a A10-5700 or A10-5800K and i'm wondering if i regret it....


TIA,
AJSB

I have A8-3870K (Llano), and I can say Catalyst improved a lot since 12.4 when I bought it. With 12.4, suspend didn't work and I had random kernel panics. Now I'm using 12.10, and it works just fine. Performance in GNOME 3 is not very good, but KDE runs just perfectly smooth with all the effects. Haven't tried 12.12 yet, and remember, Trinity are much faster than Llano.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

It would be much nicer when fglrx devs would look at public forums

Instead of working on bugs that already reported? Remember, resources is limited and time is resource too.

[Kano]

Maybe the monkey are just not clever enough - or too few.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

May you please tell us name of at least one GPU vendor, who continuously searching for bugreports about proprietary driver on Internet forums?

[benmoran]

Anyone knows if it works OK with Trinity APUs ?

I'm on the verge of building my 1st non-Intel rig , a kinda of "gaming HTPC" with a A10-5700 or A10-5800K and i'm wondering if i regret it....


TIA,
AJSB

I just got an a10-5800k (trinity) myself. I haven't yet tested 12.12, but I can tell you that 12.11-beta 11 works great. Gnome Shell is nice and smooth, and it performs as expected in games. That's a good place to start if 12.12 doesn't work.

[bobwya]

AMD released the Catalyst 12.12 Linux graphics driver for those who are lucky enough to have a 5xxx series card or newer and are still reliant upon their binary blob for Radeon/FirePro graphics card support.

Fixed it for you...

[AJSB]

I just got an a10-5800k (trinity) myself. I haven't yet tested 12.12, but I can tell you that 12.11-beta 11 works great. Gnome Shell is nice and smooth, and it performs as expected in games. That's a good place to start if 12.12 doesn't work.

Can you help me select a case ?
I need to know how tall is the top of the stock cooler in relation to the MB surface...

TIA,
AJSB