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Re: fglrx_dri.so segmentation fault

Posted by Xerxes Rånby on Nov 04, 2015; 8:43am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/fglrx-dri-so-segmentation-fault-tp4035717p4035726.html

Please note that the AMD FGLRX driver for Radeon adapters does not support the EGL interface
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-information#gnome-fglrx

The AMD FGLRX driver is incompatible with Wayland
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html
"AMD/ATI: Requires open source driver (radeon/ati, not fglrx/catalyst)."

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wayland
"Can Wayland be used with the closed source proprietary graphics drivers?

No, not at this time. fglrx, nvidia, psb, and other closed source drivers are developed externally to X.org and externally to Ubuntu. As far as we know, work to update them to conform to the new KMS/GEM/etc. architecture is not planned (at least, not publicly) and would need to be done before they could be used under Wayland.

According to Kristian closed drivers need 2 things:

    A way to set the graphics mode (like KMS, but it could also be a standalone library)
    A way to share video memory buffers (for example an EGLImage) between processes

psb already is capable of mode setting. I (adamw) don't know if it can share buffers. "