openSUSE developer Bruno Friedmann, informed the community of the openSUSE Linux operating system about the fact that he’s planning to remove the old ATI/AMD Catalyst (also known as fglrx) proprietary graphics drivers.
Every Linux user that has a PC with an AMD Radeon GPU, be it discrete or dedicated, knows by now that AMD failed to update its AMD Catalyst proprietary graphics drivers to work with recent X.Org Server and Linux kernel releases. In fact, it’s been a year since AMD/ATI Catalyst received a new version for Linux distros.
It’s true that AMD currently works on its next-generation AMDGPU-PRO graphics driver for Linux, and the latest release that launched today, versioned 16.50, appears to work on the 64-bit SUSE… (read more)
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