The release notes for debian 8, released in April of 2015, say https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#gnome-3d
> ## 5.11. The GNOME desktop does not work with the AMD proprietary FGLRX driver > > Unlike other OpenGL drivers, the AMD FGLRX driver for Radeon adapters does > not support the EGL interface. [...] On the other hand, AMD seem to have, at least, a thing which purports to support EGL, http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/graphics-development/amd-opengl-es-sdk/ , at least since August of 2015; the release notes for version 15.9 of their One Driver to Run Them All also mention http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDCatalyst15-9LINReleaseNotes.aspx > ## Resolved Issues: >[...] > * [424255] AMD Catalyst™ Installer removing EGL links resulting in > Xserver/Xorg load failure Now, I don't know if the debian 8 release notes vs. the AMD documentation are even addressing the same thing or orthogonal things, but I can't find mention of the status of this issue in recenter debian mailing lists; * is it still a problem? * Has anyone got them playing nice again? (and if so, can stable/amd64/release-notes be ammended to reflect it?) Cheers!
