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I downgraded my system through fresh reinstall to ubuntu 14.04. I installed fglrx 'successfully' but when I tried to play a game the FPS was pathetic compared to what it used to be. I found recently that the OpenGL version was 1.4 and I linked this to it. Ubuntu flashed me a graphics stack security update which I accepted and upon reboot I'm back on Gallium 0.4. Does anyone know what is going wrong here to make fglrx fail so much?

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    Possible duplicate of AMD's fglrx install problems –  Feb 09 '17 at 16:13
  • @CelticWarrior this issue is different - it used to work fine when i used to have 14.04 and now it doesnt –  Feb 09 '17 at 16:31
  • Then it's no different. There is explained what happened with 14.04.5 with the xenial kernel and HWE, the one you mentioned by "graphics stack security update" (but it's not just about graphics). In a nutshell, fglrx is not compatible with the new kernel/HWE and the OS reverted to the open source radeon and that's all there is for your hardware currently. The new fglrx replacement, the amdgpu-pro driver only supports newer graphics. –  Feb 09 '17 at 16:39
  • And you already knew that: http://askubuntu.com/questions/812889/how-do-i-install-amd-graphics-drivers-for-ubuntu-16-04 –  Feb 09 '17 at 16:40
  • @CelticWarrior ah crap, thanks. it still seems to work okay on my laptop funnily, maybe because i installed an old kernel to do so –  Feb 09 '17 at 16:40

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