The Ubuntu family

[Dirk Broer]

HD 47xx/48xxx already suffered earlier (only good with older OSes now, e.g. WinXP) but, as I already wrote after updating to 16.04 myself,
the new Ubuntu LTS now uses the Open Source driver, and will no longer accept fglrx and/or the AMD OpenCL SDK.
My rather recent GPU -actually the integrated graphics of the Athlon 5350- is found but: no CAL/Brook+, and OpenCL only up to 1.1, which is useless for nowadays crunching.

Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | Starting BOINC client version 7.6.31 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | Libraries: libcurl/7.47.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2g zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.32 librtmp/2.3
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | OpenCL: AMD/ATI GPU 0: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0) (driver version 11.2.0, device version OpenCL 1.1 MESA 11.2.0, 1024MB, 1024MB available, 96 GFLOPS peak)
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | Host name: MSI-AM1i
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) 5350 APU with Radeon(tm) R3 [Family 22 Model 0 Stepping 1]
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt topoext perfctr_nb bpext perfctr_l2 hw_pstate proc_feedback vmmcall bmi1 xsaveopt arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | OS: Linux: 4.4.0-36-generic
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | Memory: 13.65 GB physical, 15.45 GB virtual
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | Disk: 213.90 GB total, 164.93 GB free
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | Local time is UTC +2 hours
Fri 02 Sep 2016 01:42:08 AM CEST | | VirtualBox version: 5.0.24_Ubuntur108355