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This document provides information about the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Linux 15.12 Proprietary Graphics Driver.

The content of this document is organized into the following sections:

AMD Product Compatibility

Linux Distributions Supported

System Requirements

System Recommendations

Resolved Issues

AMD Product Compatibility

The AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Linux 15.12 Proprietary Graphics Driver is compatible with the following AMD products.

AMD Desktop Product Family Compatibility

AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury X

AMD Radeon™ R7 200 Series

AMD Radeon™ R9 Fury

AMD Radeon™ R5 230 Series

AMD Radeon™ R9 Nano

AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series

AMD Radeon™ R9 300 Series

AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series

AMD Radeon™ R9 200 Series

AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 Series

AMD Radeon™ R7 300 Series

ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

AMD All-In-One Desktop Product Family Compatibility

AMD Radeon™ HD 7600A Series

AMD Radeon™ HD 6600A Series

AMD Radeon™ HD 7450A Series

AMD Radeon™ HD 6350A Series

AMD APU Product Family Compatibility

Desktop

Mobile

A-Series AMD Radeon™ R7 Graphics

AMD Radeon™ HD 8000D Series

A-Series AMD Radeon™ R6 Graphics

AMD Radeon™ HD 7000D Series

A-Series AMD Radeon™ R5 Graphics

AMD Radeon™ HD 6000D Series

A-Series AMD Radeon™ R4 Graphics

AMD Radeon™ HD 8000G Series

A-Series AMD Radeon™ R3 Graphics

AMD Radeon™ HD 7000G Series

FX-8800P AMD Radeon™ R7 Graphics

AMD Radeon™ HD 6000G Series

E-Series AMD Radeon™ R2 Graphics

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AMD Mobility Product Family Compatibility

AMD Radeon™ R9 M300 Series

AMD Radeon™ R5 M200 Series

AMD Radeon™ R7 M300 Series

AMD Radeon™ HD 8000M Series

AMD Radeon™ R5 M300 Series

AMD Radeon™ HD 7000M Series

​AMD Radeon™ R9 M200 Series

​AMD Radeon™ HD 6000M Series

AMD Radeon™ R7 M200 Series

ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series

Linux Distributions Supported

This version of the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Linux Proprietary Graphics Driver is designed to support the following Linux distributions:

Distributions supported:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.7, 6.6, 6.5

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, 14.04.2, 14.04.3, 15.04, 15.10

SUSE® Linux Enterprise 11 SP3, 12

OpenSuSE 13.1

Distribution specific packages are available for:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 7.1, 7.0, 6.6, 6.5

Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, 14.04.2

System Requirements

Before attempting to install the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Linux 15.12 Proprietary Graphics Driver, the following software must be installed:

Xorg/Xserver 7.4 and above (up to 1.17)

Linux kernel 2.6 or above (up to 3.19)

glibc version 2.2 or 2.3

POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications

NOTE: If a Linux 2.6.11 or newer kernel was built with CONFIG_AGP enabled, the kernel AGP frontend is required to load the fglrx kernel module. To identify whether your kernel with CONFIG_AGP enabled, look for CONFIG_AGP=y in the kernel config file, or if the 'agpgart' module is loaded

System Recommendations

For optimal performance and ease of use, the following are available:

Kernel module build environment

Kernel source code include either the Kernel Source or Kernel Headers packages

The RPM utility should be installed and configured correctly on your system, if you intend to install via RPM packages

The following packages must be installed in order for the AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition Linux 15.12 Proprietary Graphics Driver to install and work optimally:

gimp-help-en

gimp-help-common

XFree86-Mesa-libGL

libstdc++

libgcc

XFree86-libs

fontconfig

freetype

zlib

gcc

Resolved Issue:

​[SWDEV-82980] Ubuntu 15.10 fails when building the .deb packages