Thankfully I had other Kernels installed, I'm now using 4.4-0.59. So I went there but some programs don't work on it, and others work where they used not to (Audacious now playing my turntable through the desktop stereo system and easily ripping vinyls into flac/mp3.
The update was this one :
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Commit Log for Mon Jul 24 14:12:46 2017
Upgraded the following packages:
imagemagick (8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7) to 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.8
imagemagick-common (8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7) to 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.8
libdrm-amdgpu1 (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libdrm-dev (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libdrm-intel1 (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libdrm-intel1:i386 (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libdrm-nouveau2 (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libdrm-nouveau2:i386 (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libdrm-radeon1 (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libdrm-radeon1:i386 (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libdrm2 (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libdrm2:i386 (2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.1) to 2.4.67-1ubuntu0.14.04.2
libmagickcore5 (8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7) to 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.8
libmagickwand5 (8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.7) to 8:6.7.7.10-6ubuntu3.8
x11proto-randr-dev (1.5.0-1~trusty1) to 1.5.0-1~trusty2
xserver-common (2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7) to 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.9
xserver-xephyr (2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7) to 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.9
xserver-xorg-core (2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7) to 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.9
xserver-xorg-dev (2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.7) to 2:1.15.1-0ubuntu2.9
xtrans-dev (1.3.5-1~ubuntu14.04.1) to 1.3.5-1~ubuntu14.04.2
After that like I say in the title, my file amd-driver-installer-15.20.1046-x86.x86_64.run and I also had "amd-driver-installer-15.302-x86.x86_64.run" which I tried first I think to install.
Right now, I've used all the knowledge I already had, plus some additional stuff I found online on the Ubuntu help questions that always show up so much more at the top of anything else...
So, I installed "amd-driver-installer-15.20.1046-x86.x86_64.run" while in another session where I turned off mdm. All the requisites, I even made packages that would be named fglrx*...strangely. In LM 17.3's Driver Manager before all of this, all the other free drivers were greyed out and the only choice was "ATI/AMD HD Radeon 7850 Pitcairn blah blah".
Right now it tells me I am using a proprietary device...it looks like this : https://my.mixtape.moe/mrvtdq.png
And it's not like I changed OS's, I didn't, I switched to another what I thought would be a temporary thing only. So I just, created files from the amd-radeon-15.30 and also 15.20 Proprietary Driver, which doesn't make my Theme look pale..and the AMD Catalyst program doesn't work, it tells me "here was a problem initializing Catalyst Control Center Linux edition. It could be caused by the following.
No AMD graphics driver is installed, or the AMD driver is not functioning properly.
Please install the AMD driver appropriate for you AMD hardware, or configure using aticonfig."
Right now I'm running 15,20 since it's what I was running back when on the checked as recommended 3.19-0.32, but I also created the packages for the 15.30 driver, apparently there is a way to get your prop driver installed this way...despite them all being named fglrx...
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/catalyst15.12/fglrx-15.302 $ ls
amd-driver-installer-15.302-x86.x86_64.run doc fglrx-amdcccle_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb fglrx-dev_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
check.sh fglrx_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb fglrx-core_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb fglrx-installer_15.302-0ubuntu1_amd64.changes
It was a failure, I tried to do it with the fglrx files, fglrx -i fglrx-amdcccle[...].deb. And it didn't do anything.
So I tried it with the tried and true manner, got a DKMS error and all went to crap, I got 2 dead kernels, a 3.19.80 and that 3.13 driver...they don't even let me press S because it's unable to mount drives it mounts automatically when I click them in Places.
I want the real proprietary driver, not this. Please, just give me help about that subject, do not question my motives about why I want it (I already gave some answers..I also game through CrossOver and Steam) and the difference is quite something even just in caja when my theme is seen, right now it's a kind of distant beige-ish dark-ish background and my files are in green. Well it's not solid colours, like when I booted back in Windows 7 just to see if my eyes were funny. No, it's these non-proprietary, proprietary drivers that cause me a major headache, since 2 days. The number of Purges, programs doing miraculously more than I wanted, programs doing absolutely nothing/destroying a Kernel by having it not have any video driver and the safe mode console is useless since everything is Read Only.