Getting fglrx to work on sid/liquorix

[lizbeth]

There's always mate aka gnome 2

[xircon]

Before I used Cinnamon, I used to use just compiz as my dm, think I will dig out my old config files and play. Never liked gnome2 but I do like cinnamon and gnome 3

[lizbeth]

I thought the goal was fglrx drivers to play your game?

[lizbeth]

extra cinnamon themes http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/main/c/cinnamon-themes/cinnamon-themes_2012.11.06_all.deb

[lizbeth]

install mate and fglrx and see if it runs... delete the taskbars and just run compiz? not a bad idea really. i did that before too.

[lizbeth]

right now I'm running the stock fglrx drivers from the repos just to see how they fare. Not bad and they work with the liquorix kernel too. ver 12.6 according the files listed in synaptic.

[xircon]

Might try that later, compiling current liquorix kernel for Arch ATM (I really like Manjaro, it feels so snappy compared to LMDE, perhaps I need a fresh install to compare). Yeh, I had a panel less gnome2 for a while it wasn't to bad, I just renamed gnome-panel to gnome-panel-old.

Steve

[lizbeth]

Code: Select all

sudo apt-get install glx-alternative-fglrx fglrx-driver fglrx-control amd-opencl-icd


[lizbeth]

I never tried arch. I read the installation instructions and and kept going

[xircon]

Same here , but this spin-off has a graphical installer of sorts (and I had a spare 20gb partition). I won't say it was easy, I must of tried 3 times, eventually got there with the beta installer. It (Arch) is a bit rough around the edges, needs a decent synaptic type application (pacman-gui is crap!). Pacman itself is OK, still compiling Liquorix, I accidently cancelled it (twice). Am watching a film (Drive 2011) and to swap out of compact mode it is ctrl+c............... Never compile with guake open!

Steve

[darethehair]

Was the issue of using the AMD zip/run file to install Catalyst/fglrx 12.10 into an LMDE environment resolved?

I am tentatively planning to purchase a "Radeon HD 7750" graphics card, and would eventually need to chose between using experimental repos to install (version 12.10), or using the zip/run file from AMD to install (version 12.10 or 12.11 beta).

Thanks!