| John__ | Hello, I bought a new laptop with amd gpu and i'm confused about the current state of amd drivers. Can someone explain what are all these drivers, fglrx, ati, amdgpu, amdgpu-pro? I want the best recommended driver for performance | 20:49 |
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| lynorian | John__, which laptop gpu is it | 20:52 |
| lynorian | fglrx is the old propritary driver not supported anymore | 20:52 |
| lynorian | ati is a company that amd bought with that gave them their gpu technology | 20:53 |
| lynorian | amdgpu is the new driver for recent stuff | 20:53 |
| lynorian | amdgpu-pro is the proprietary amd extensions to the new amdgpu driver | 20:54 |
| John__ | Dell Inspiron 15 5559 with AMD Radeon R5 M335 | 20:54 |
| John__ | lynorian, thank you very much | 20:55 |
| John__ | lynorian, oibaf ppa has a driver called xserver-xorg-video-ati, what about that | 20:56 |
| lynorian | I honestly don't use obiaf | 20:56 |
| lynorian | Ok you should use amdgpu on that | 20:57 |
| lynorian | and then with amdgpu-pro if you need even more performance | 20:57 |
| John__ | is there any ppa with pro driver? | 20:59 |
| lynorian | oh wait that is actually A rebadged old cpu | 21:01 |
| lynorian | hate when amd does that | 21:01 |
| lynorian | hoenstly just use raedon | 21:01 |
| lynorian | I have heard fglrx is very unstable | 21:01 |
| lynorian | and not supported with 16.04 or newer | 21:02 |
| John__ | what driver is installed by default in ubuntu 16.10? | 21:05 |
| lynorian | it installs the open source ones by default but will load the one you need | 21:37 |
| lynorian | this allows you to say using the built in drivers to move disks around to different machines if say your laptop screen breaks and you need data off it | 21:37 |
| John__ | my laptop has hybrid graphics, amd/intel and now uses intel, how to change it into amd | 23:49 |
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