I stupidly went ahead and installed 16.04 after weeks of being told there was an "upgrade". What a complete lie. Losing a massive part of my system is in no way an "upgrade"
16.04 not only took away fglrx but also your ability to run OpenCL apps of which BOINC has a ton. So, bottom line, if you have an AMD GPU do not install 16.04. I'm probably going back to 14.04 and stick with Catalyst until my AMD GPU dies, then I'm off to NVIDIA. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fglrx-installer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568233 Title: BOINC doesn't recognize AMD/ATI GPU in 16.04 despite sudo /etc/init.d /boinc-client restart Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Back on 14.04 and also 12.04, all you had to do to get BOINC to use the GPU(s), was to install AMD's proprietary fglrx driver, and then type in terminal: sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client restart You had to type that like every time you (re)started Ubuntu for BOINC to recognize your graphics card, but it worked to fix the GPU recognition with AMD cards (not sure about Nvidia cards though, since I don't have any). Now however, in 16.04, AMD's Catalyst drivers have been deprecated, and while the switch to AMD's improved open source GPU drivers is a good move, for some reason, this command line no longer works to recognize AMD graphics cards. And since we can no longer install fglrx/Catalyst on Xenial, I hope AMD's work on their open source drivers gets a BOINC optimization ASAP. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fglrx-installer/+bug/1568233/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
