AMD Omega Driver - R9 280 OC

I am trying to install the Catalyst Omega driver (14.12) and it hasn't worked. I'm not sure where I botched it. I am running ubuntu-gnome 14.04. I'm at my wits end. Can anyone help me.

You do have to give more details on what you did. The typical thing that ppl forget to do is that after they install the driver from the AMD website you need to do ¨aticonfig --initial¨ to initialize the driver before you reboot. Otherwise the driver is botched.Did you do that and still it did not work?

If you run this command it will tell you what driver is currently running.

glxinfo | grep -i vendor

I was trying to install the omega driver from this Tutorial and I ran
into the error above in step #3 and got this:

kungr@kungr-desktop:~/Downloads/CatalystOmega$ sudo amdconfig –initial -f 
[sudo] password for kungr: 
sudo: amdconfig: command not found 
kungr@kungr-desktop:~/Downloads/CatalystOmega$ sudo dpkg -i fglrx* 
dpkg-deb: error: `fglrx_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb' is not a debian format archive 
dpkg: error processing archive fglrx_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb (--install): 
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 
dpkg-deb: error: `fglrx-amdcccle_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb' is not a debian format archive 
dpkg: error processing archive fglrx-amdcccle_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb (--install): 
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 
dpkg-deb: error: `fglrx-core_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb' is not a debian format archive 
dpkg: error processing archive fglrx-core_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb (--install): 
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 
dpkg-deb: error: `fglrx-dev_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb' is not a debian format archive 
dpkg: error processing archive fglrx-dev_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb (--install): 
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 
Errors were encountered while processing: 
 fglrx_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb 
 fglrx-amdcccle_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb 
 fglrx-core_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb 
 fglrx-dev_14.501-0ubuntu1_amd64_UB_14.01.deb 
kungr@kungr-desktop:~/Downloads/CatalystOmega$

glxinfo | grep -i vendor produces:

server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org

Can you link the tutorial again? Cause we did not get a link

I don't know why it is showing the whole thing but here you go.


https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/installing-amd-catalyst-omega-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts-64-bit/75329

Step 3 in the tutorial is downloading the driver. What you tried to do in your terminal screenshot that you showed us is installing the driver.

Did you download the driver correctly? You may want to re-download the driver from the AMD site and try again. It might be that the package was corrupted.

Also the sudo amdconfig –initial -f you do after installing the fglrx driver not before.

Additionally, unless you need the latest omega driver specifically for sth the one Ubuntu provide in the additional drivers application is more than fine. (if you doing this for the kicks then by all mean its a nice thing try).

I'm not sure on how the omega drivers work for linux, but I would assume that it works just like it does on windows. And if it does the omega drivers do not work for the 280 because it is based off of the old Tahiti architecture. The omega drivers only work on the newer gcn cards like the Hawaii(290/x), Tonga(285), or even Bionare(260x). But like I said idk how they are working on linux.

I have run 3 different tutorials, re-installed ubuntu half-a-dozen times. Why are AMDs drivers such a pain to install. I'm like 5 steps away from "office spacing" this card and running onboard graphics. I have had the drivers work before. But had to do a fresh install and now it won't work. Is it because i'm running 14.04.2?

Does anyone have a good handle on this?

I don't mind a bit of work but this has been laborious. Ya this has me put off AMD for good.

Again do you really need the latest Omega ones? Aren´t the drivers installed automatically (by the ¨addiotianal drivers¨ application) sufficient or do you need the latest for sth specific? You can save a lot of time.

Otherwise I cannot be sure. I install the AMD manually like in the AMD tutorial and it workled fine. What card (manufacturer) do you have?

did you even read my post

"But it also appears to be the potential dawn of a more ominous age for AMD enthusiasts, because the vast majority of Catalyst Omega’s new features aren’t available for one-generation-old Radeon 7000-series graphics cards, nor the current-gen R9 280 and R9 280X (which are basically rebrands of the older Radeon 7950 and 7970). When asked whether some of the features might hit 7000-series cards in the future, Hallock said “This driver is focused on R9 and R7.""

I used this tutorial once before and it worked. Now it doesn't.

This is my Radeon Card

The tutorial looks absolutely correct.
Make sure you are in the correct folder in the Terminal (the folder were the .deb are dowloaded) and it should work.

Otherwise it could be the issue that @Cloudgaming12 is taking about with the 280/280X that came up with the new version of the distro.

I would suggest to use the driver (fgrlx-updates) given by the ubuntu ¨additional drivers¨ application and leave it as that. They are perfectly fine. (purge what you have installed first though)

Every time I have tried to install drivers and failed, I have just reformated and started from a fresh install. When I use the additional drivers feature in Ubuntu, all it does is grey out for a moment and reverts back to the default setting.

As I stated and linked above, the tutorial worked on Ubuntu 14.04.0, But doesn't work on 14.04.2. That is the only difference I can see so far. But that is guess work at this point, because I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Currently, my computer is hooked up to my TV so I just want it to work. I might fresh install 14.04.0 and see if that works. But right now i want to pull back and get my sanity back.

K