Problem int install Driver of AMD R7 360

[wwwronin]

I get AMD R7 360 card and try to drive it on tinycore. I get the *.run package from AMD website. When I get into the last step, there is an error, "modprobe: can not load module fglrx.ko ,unknown symbol in module,or unknown parameter.
And I also want to known how to make this driver into *.tcz package ?
Thanks!

[wwwronin]

I make a tcz package of  AMD R7 360  in 6.4 32 bit. It seems to be worked correctly. Module fglrx is loaded .

[Misalf]

Admin question: Are those files allowed to be submitted to the repo or are users required to pack them their selves if needed?
I'm asking because I think I want those drivers since I couldn't get certain systems using ATI GPUs to work that easy.

[gerald_clark]

It depends on the licensing restrictions of the package.
Programs that are not allowed to be redistributed or that require a click-through license agreement cannot be accepted as extensions.

[Misalf]

Exactly ^. Personally, fortunately, I don't have to care about licensing in my daily life, so I have no idea.
There is a box available near me, using a Radeon card, I could potentially test thinks on.
Xorg (which I'm usually using) might be the issue, if the driver is missing, that the system has problems to finish loading to the desktop, I'd suspect (I'm using several methods to either load the correct driver or I fall back to reboot and boot default Core Linux). Having the needed files in a extension may hopefully fix this.

Is this the same shing like with nvidia?
So I'd go ahead and build my own personal extension.

[Juanito]

In the end user licence agreement it says:

3. ​RESTRICTIONS

Except for the limited license expressly granted in Section 2 herein, You have no other rights in the Software, whether express, implied, arising by estoppel or otherwise. Further restrictions regarding Your use of the Software are set forth below. You may not:

    modify or create derivative works of the Software;
    distribute, publish, display, sublicense, assign or otherwise transfer the Software;

..so we cannot post the driver to the repo

[curaga]

@Misalf

fglrx is of terrible quality, and it also recently dropped support for some more cards. What's your card?

[wwwronin]

@ curaga
can you help me to solve the driver problem of R7 360? I download driver from website of radeon-crimson-15.11-15.30.1025.zip. And install the fglrx module correctly. But when I run fglrxinfo, there are errors as following:
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: Couldn't find RGB GLX visual.
lsmod output as following:
fglrx
agpgart
...

Thanks

[curaga]

Sorry, I don't use it.

[pq5190362]

fglrx is of terrible quality, and it also recently dropped support for some more cards.

For using the open source driver, the R7 360 probably might need the new amdgpu driver instead of the radeon driver?

AFAICT though, the new amdgpu driver is not yet available in the Tiny Core Linux repositories.

[Juanito]

I'd guess that amdgpu would need more recent versions of the kernel, drm, llvm and mesa, not to mention xf86-video-amdgpu...

[curaga]

For using the open source driver, the R7 360 probably might need the new amdgpu driver instead of the radeon driver?

No, it is a two-times rebrand, so it'd work on the radeon driver.

[Misalf]

@Misalf

fglrx is of terrible quality, and it also recently dropped support for some more cards. What's your card?

Radeon 9550

[curaga]

Radeon 9550

That's a R300. AMD's binary driver dropped support for it in 2009.

It should be well supported on the open side, though it's an AGP card, and AGP has known problems with all OSes.

[Misalf]

Thanks, curaga.
I'll stay away from fglrx if I can.
Could it help regarding more recent cards though (I don't know the model currently), where  xf86-video-ati.tcz  and  firmware-radeon.tcz  don't provide support for?