In the past I have downloaded drivers from the AMD site and uninstalled the drivers that I had before then but ended up with a black screen and no TTY. Is there a specific process to hand installing drivers?
Edit: The reason I ask is in linux I have 30 FPS and lower in games on my rolling release distro and I would like to avoid another install process. Though I have eagerly been waiting for ubu 16.04 I like arch and I would rather not spend time redoing shit I could just fix with some help.
Unfortunately I do not have an answer for you on Arch other than you are using the open source drivers right? Those proprietary drivers are doodoo. If you are using steam, I believe it has trouble running because of old libs or something like that. Probably a fix in the wiki though.
your best bet would to download all the stuff like kernel-devel and the open source drives and configure it to match you machine.
What drivers specifically are you looking for? There may be a package in the AUR.
If you are using steam, I believe it has trouble running because of old libs or something like that. Probably a fix in the wiki though.
On arch, we disable the bundled "steam runtime" as it's called. This enables us to use all the Arch libraries and things work well with 90% of games.
I'll assume you know what these instructions mean if you're using Arch. Boot from the live cd/DVD/USB and mount your partitions in the /mnt folder and execute:arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
like you would have to install Arch. From here, you should be able to navigate to the folder you downloaded the driver to and rub something like:./AMD-DRIVER.run --uninstall
or whatever the name of the file is. After this, just reboot. Hope this works for you.
The proprietary AMD drivers (fglrx) are no longer being developed for Linux. I would recommend looking into the AMDGPU driver if you're using Arch. You may get lower frames than you used to but AMD will be focusing their efforts on it and framerates should get better in time. Ubuntu 16.04 does not support fglrx at all due to it using xorg 1.18 and too new of a kernel. If you want to game with the proprietary drivers, I would recommend installing a stable distro like Debian or, I think Manjaro. (SteamOS?)