Fglrx (AMD Radeon R5 M230 drivers) cannot install

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VMware always complains that it cannot enable 3D acceleration for the guest system and advised to install proprietary video card drivers. According to the support.amd.com site my video card (AMD Radeon R5 M230) does not support new AMD’s drivers and should use the good old Catalyst/fglrx thing. So I’ve decided to install Catalyst Control Center and the drivers for the Radeon video card:

Here’s what I get:

$ sudo urpmi fglrx-control-center
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
 Package                        Version      Release       Dist  DEpoch Arch 
(medium "main updates (Einsteinium3.0-2)")
 dkms                           2.2.0.3.1    3.20130827.15 omv   2015.0 noarch 
(medium "non-free (Einsteinium3.0-9)")
 dkms-fglrx                     15.200.1046  2             omv   2015.0 x86_64 
 fglrx-control-center           15.200.1046  2             omv   2015.0 x86_64 
 x11-driver-video-fglrx         15.200.1046  2             omv   2015.0 x86_64 
181MB of additional disk space will be used.
37MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of the 4 packages? (Y/n) y


    http://mirror.yandex.ru/openmandriva/3.0/repository/x86_64/media/non-free/release/dkms-fglrx-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 3

Updating urpmi database...
medium "main (Einsteinium3.0-1)" is up-to-date
medium "main updates (Einsteinium3.0-2)" is up-to-date
medium "Main32 (Einsteinium3.0-3)" is up-to-date
medium "Main32 Updates (Einsteinium3.0-4)" is up-to-date
medium "contrib (Einsteinium3.0-5)" is up-to-date
medium "contrib updates (Einsteinium3.0-6)" is up-to-date
medium "contrib32 (Einsteinium3.0-7)" is up-to-date
medium "contrib32 updates (Einsteinium3.0-8)" is up-to-date
medium "non-free (Einsteinium3.0-9)" is up-to-date
medium "non-free updates (Einsteinium3.0-10)" is up-to-date
medium "Non-free32 (Einsteinium3.0-11)" is up-to-date
medium "Non-free32 Updates (Einsteinium3.0-12)" is up-to-date
medium "restricted (Einsteinium3.0-13)" is up-to-date
medium "restricted updates (Einsteinium3.0-14)" is up-to-date
restarting urpmi
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
 Package                        Version      Release       Dist  DEpoch Arch                                                                         
(medium "Main32 Updates (Einsteinium3.0-4)")                                                                                                         
 dkms                           2.2.0.3.1    3.20130827.15 omv   2015.0 noarch                                                                       
(medium "non-free (Einsteinium3.0-9)")                                                                                                               
 dkms-fglrx                     15.200.1046  2             omv   2015.0 x86_64                                                                       
 fglrx-control-center           15.200.1046  2             omv   2015.0 x86_64                                                                       
 x11-driver-video-fglrx         15.200.1046  2             omv   2015.0 x86_64                                                                       
181MB of additional disk space will be used.                                                                                                         
37MB of packages will be retrieved.                                                                                                                  
Proceed with the installation of the 4 packages? (Y/n) y                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                     
    http://mirror.yandex.ru/openmandriva/3.0/repository/x86_64/media/non-free/release/dkms-fglrx-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm                  
aria2 failed: exited with 3

Failed to download dkms-fglrx-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
Retry? (y/N) y
aria2 failed: exited with 3

Failed to download dkms-fglrx-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
Retry? (y/N) y
aria2 failed: exited with 3

Failed to download dkms-fglrx-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
Retry? (y/N) n
...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 3

Installation failed, some files are missing:
    http://mirror.yandex.ru/openmandriva/3.0/repository/x86_64/media/non-free/release/x11-driver-video-fglrx-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    http://mirror.yandex.ru/openmandriva/3.0/repository/x86_64/media/non-free/release/dkms-fglrx-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
    http://mirror.yandex.ru/openmandriva/3.0/repository/x86_64/media/non-free/release/fglrx-control-center-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
You may need to update your urpmi database.

Try to continue anyway? (y/N)  n
$

I’ve tried the other mirrors and still no luck. While I don’t need 3D in VMware or in other applications at all the message about the proprietary drivers and 3D acceleration (and also the fact that the opensource driver does not support xbacklight and brightness) is pretty annoying.

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I’ve tried solving the problem myself and the problem is that the dkms-fglrx package is not available on mirror.yandex.ru:

[tim@tim-pc ~]$ wget http://mirror.yandex.ru/openmandriva/3.0/repository/x86_64/media/non-free/release/dkms-fglrx-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
--2018-06-11 20:31:54--  http://mirror.yandex.ru/openmandriva/3.0/repository/x86_64/media/non-free/release/dkms-fglrx-15.200.1046-2-omv2015.0.x86_64.rpm
Resolving mirror.yandex.ru... 
Connecting to mirror.yandex.ru:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2018-06-11 20:31:54 ERROR 404: Not Found.

[tim@tim-pc ~]$

Neither I can find it in prebuilt RPM form on OpenMandriva’s ABF:

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Should I try installing the drivers from support.amd.com then?

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Well, I tried installing the drivers from AMD’s website and here’s what I’ve got:

[tim@tim-pc fglrx-15.302]$ ls
amd-driver-installer-15.302-x86.x86_64.run  check.sh  doc
[tim@tim-pc fglrx-15.302]$ ./amd-driver-installer-15.302-x86.x86_64.run 
Created directory fglrx-install.B2N8tO
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing AMD Proprietary Driver-15.302...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
=====================================================================
 AMD  Proprietary Driver Installer/Packager 
=====================================================================

error: Detected X Server version 'XServer _64a' is not supported. Supported versions are X.Org 6.9 or later, up to XServer 1.10 (default:v2:x86_64:lib:XServer _64a:none:4.16.13-desktop-1omv:)
Installation will not proceed.

Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.B2N8tO
[tim@tim-pc fglrx-15.302]$

P.S. Sorry for spamming.

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Well, AMD drop old fglrx driver. Catalyst 15.12 is latest supported version. New proprietary drivers from AMD is called AMDGPU-PRO and support only GPU from GCN series so from HD7XXX, all below like HD5xxx and HD6xxx not supported.
So old drivers fglrx is deprecated by AMD and by all Linux distros. Why? Because to make old drivers works, you need add patches for new kernel (this is possible to patch) but also need support for new X severs and to patch this u need access to closed code. So patch it is almost not possible at this moment.
So drop fglrx.

Now, best AMD drivers for Linux is just Mesa. Sp after installing system you do not have to do anything because these drivers are automatically installed from the beginning.
Some people for enterprise/OpenCL task can use new proprietary drivers AMDGPU-Pro but their installation is problematic. That’s why I recommend staying on open drivers.

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Thanks for helping me!

I guess I should stay on the opensource Radeon drivers since AMDGPU-PRO drivers do not support AMD A8 APUs (which include Radeon R5 M230) and Catalyst is 32-bit for some reason.

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I suggest to you to user VirtualBox instead of VMware, if you can.

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Currently VirtualBox is the only virtualization software supported by OM.