[manjaro-general] Installing AMD Catalyst

[dazs at gmx.net]

I'm not an expert, so please someone correct me if I'm wrong:

The AMD Catalyst driver (fglrx) is highly deprecated and does not work
with newer versions of xorg.
There are the open source drivers radeon[1] for pre-GCN cards and
AMDGPU[2] with Vulkan support for GCN cards (GCN 1 is experimental but
working fine in my experience). AMDGPU PRO is the new proprietary
driver, but only for newer cards and should only interest you, if you
need a very specific feature.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU


Am 04.07.19 um 05:23 schrieb Edgar:
> Hi everyone, I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this. I'm
> trying to install the closed source video driver for a Radeon HD
> graphics card, installation goes ok but when I reboot the computer in
> order to load the new driver, xorg fails to initialize, I've tried
> aticonfig -f but nothing seems to work. I'm using Manjaro 18.1.0 rc1.
> Thanks in advance.