![]() I just had to install the xvba-va-driver and amd-opencl-icd packages that are indicated as “suggested” by fglrx-driver and finally everything worked, even 720p and 1080p movies. It turns out the problem was that OpenGL couldn’t find Radeon hardware acceleration libraries and fell back back to software algorithms (library swrast_dri.so) that crashed everything somehow. So I used apt-pinning to install the packages from unstable and finally it worked! Well, up until I tried to run glxinfo or Catalyst control center, in which case it crashed the X and brought me back to login screen. I investigated better the problem with the Debian packages, and it turns out the driver I installed, version fglrx-driver/1:14.2~beta1.3-1, had a bug that was solved in the unstable release. I tried to download and install the drivers from AMD official page, but the kernel module failed in compilation without giving much error messages to troubleshoot. So I created a link and the error disappeared, but X was segfaulting anyway. I noticed that the server didn’t find the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so file, but the file was present elsewhere, specifically in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/ directory. This game, which has a history as a Quake mod, is a throwback to the 90s, as fast as Quake, as slick as Unreal Tournament, and as blissfully unencumbered by narrative as any skill-based shooter. The problem is that when I tried to watch a 720p movie full-screen with VLC the video lagged, jumped and buffered that was unacceptable because it’s one of the main usage scenarios of my PC, so (after trying to play with some nf options unsuccessfully) I jumped back to troubleshoot the proprietary drivers.īy looking at dmesg and /var/log/Xorg.0.log it seemed that a segmentation fault happened. But no such thing happens in Nexuiz, a game that recalls a time before reload buttons. I then tried to follow the instructions on using the open source drivers, and they were able to bring up X, the login screen and the desktop environment. ![]() This is a copy of the official svn-repository with all commits (revision 8770). It is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPLv2). Debian has a package and a wiki page on how to install these proprietary drivers, so I tried to mount the graphic card and follow the instructions, but X server didn’t start. Nexuiz is a multiplayer first-person shooter. ![]() My desktop PC has a Debian testing installation, and I read that AMD has started to release Linux proprietary drivers just like Nvidia. I changed card because my old XFX GeForce 7300 GS had a broken fan and it was time to let it go (before the hot summer). This week I bought a Sapphire R7 240 2GB DDR3 graphic card, sporting an AMD Radeon R7 240 chip suggested by Tom’s Hardware march wrap-up. World of Warcraft issues games for linux whats out there Nexuiz Savage 2 - A Tortured Soul (File) Pidgin xfire. ![]()
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