fglrx_is_dead

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:09:20 +0000

2016-07-11 - fglrx is dead

after many repetitions of struggles with fglrx it is time to let it go – fglrx on linux is now officially dead. there were quite a few complaints about it not supporting latest X11 ABI 1 2 3. even though most of the time it worked nicely OotB, it had a long history of falling behind with changes in ABI.

from now on only official drivers for AMD/Radeon GP/GPUs are radeon (for older ones) and amdgpu (for newer ones).

after playing a bit with xorg.conf (years since i've done that manually the last time!) i managed to make it running with dual-screen setup, where one screen is rotated. here's the setup:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
	FontPath     "built-ins"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "auto"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	Option	    "Primary" "true"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
	Option	    "TargetRefresh" "60"
	Option	    "Position" "0 720"
	Option	    "Rotate" "normal"
	Option	    "Disable" "false"
	Option	    "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor1"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	Option	    "Primary" "false"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
	Option	    "TargetRefresh" "60"
	Option	    "Position" "1920 0"
	Option	    "Rotate" "left"
	Option	    "Disable" "false"
	Option	    "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "radeon"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
	Option      "Monitor-DVI-0" "Monitor0"
	Option      "Monitor-DVI-1" "Monitor1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport  0 0
		Virtual   3840 1920
		Depth     24
	EndSubSection
EndSection

btw: abandoning fglrx fixed at least one game for me, namely talos principle.

talos_principle

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:09:19 +0000

2016-07-11 - talos principle

i do not play much and i usually do not recommend games… but this one is truly worth it. Talos Principle is an excellent puzzle game, available on steam, linux. aside of mind-blowing graphics (make sure you have some extra ice for your graphics card! :)) it offers a lot of interesting mind challenges. it is a pure puzzle experience – no arcade-style, dexterity tests. most of the time you just sit around, watch and think how to solve a new riddle, with very limited resources you are provided.

aside from excellent playability, and amazing graphics, there is a story. a story of a dying out human race, that developed an AI to take over. all the levels are showing incredible views, all of this mixed with christian-like mythology, of a creator and its creation, that discovers gardens of knowledge. whole plot is interleaved with well-though philosophical debate about humanity, life and our place in the universe, from different perspectives and different times. in fact, to get into the game's climate you spend significant amount of time reading stories from barely-readable data sets, left for you to discover. there are also insightful observations, covered in recordings of Alexandra Drennan – an engineer who started the whole AI project.

just imagine TIM with AIs to talk with and philosophical background to shape the plot. such a game is done once a decade!

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