For Radeon HD 5xxx to Rx 300, there is the regular Catalyst driver. Lastly, you can install the driver directly from AMD.īefore choosing the method you prefer, you will have to see which driver you need. The second method you can use is the AUR PKGBUILDs offered here are also made by Vi0L0 and are the same he uses to built packages for his repository. This repository contains all the necessary packages. One way is to use Vi0L0's (Arch's unofficial Catalyst maintainer) repository.

There are three ways of installing Catalyst on your system. See the Release notes, Xorg's decoder ring or this list to translate model and code names. Supported devices are Radeon video cards with chipsets from R600 to Volcanic Islands (HD 2xxx to Rx 300). Catalyst supports OpenCL 2.0 which is the main difference between it and the open source driver. This page has instructions for Catalyst and Catalyst legacy.Ĭompared with the open source ATI driver, Catalyst performs generally worse in 2D rendering, equal in 3D rendering and has better power management but lacks efficient multi-head support.

7.26 Chromium glitching when using plasmaĭepending on the card you have, find the right driver in Xorg#AMD.

7.25 Backlight adjustment does not work.

7.23 Switching to TTYs then back to X session gives a black screen with a mouse cursor.

7.22 Switching from X session to TTYs gives a black screen with the monitor backlight on.

7.21 Switching from X session to TTYs gives a blank screen/low resolution TTY.7.20 Hybrid/PowerXpress: turning off discrete GPU.7.18 Dual Screen Setup: general problems with acceleration, OpenGL, compositing, performance.7.17 Not using full screen resolution at 1920x1080 (underscanning, black borders around the screen).7.16 Lag/slow windows movement in GNOME3.7.15 Lag/freezes when watching flash videos via Adobe's flashplugin.7.13 'aticonfig: No supported adapters detected'.7.12 Temporary hangs when playing video.7.9.1 Video fails to resume from suspend2ram.7.7 Black screen with complete lockups and/or hangs after reboot or startx.5.4 Double Screen (Dual Head / Dual Screen / Xinerama).5.3 GPU/Mem frequency, Temperature, Fan speed, Overclocking utilities.

4.3.2 amdapp-sdk (formerly known as amdstream).2.4.2 Issues with PowerXpress laptops running in AMD mode (pxp_switch_catalyst amd) with external / secondary monitor.2.4.1 Running two X servers (one using the Intel driver, another one using fglrx) simultaneously.2.1.1 Installing from the unofficial repository.

Catalyst drivers