[solved] Unable to use fglrx

[vichenze]

Hello,

I have a HD 7850 GPU and I'm running Mint 17. I used fglrx with success in the past, but I don't know what happened, I can't use it anymore.
I can still select it in the specific drivers window, but when I reboot, after login, I have a message saying "Cinnamon has crashed. Would you like to use the safe mode ?" (it's a translation, English message could be a bit different). The message continues to be shown until I press "No".

I tried anyway to do

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$ glxinfo | grep Rendering
X Error of failed request:  BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  157 (ATIFGLEXTENSION)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  66 ()
  Serial number of failed request:  13
  Current serial number in output stream:  13

The only solution I have is to uninstall totally fglrx so I got switch back to open driver.

How can I solve this problem ?

Thanks !

[Citizen229]

Default Kernal? 17.3?

[vichenze]

Mint 17 Qiana
Kernel 4.8.0

[mr_raider]

Mint 17 Qiana
Kernel 4.8.0

Go back to 4.4. I doubt fglrx can be built on such a new kernel. I thought it only worked until 3.19.

[vichenze]

That's it, it works with 4.4 kernel !
Thanks