Ubuntu 17.10

[Dirk Broer]

Ubuntu 16.04 already did away with FGLRX, which is why I upgraded to 17.10 in the first place.
I had hoped that the Open Source drivers for the 17.10 release would have been better -as in supporting a broader range of cards, crunching-wise- ,
but the opposite was the case. In the case of APUs you're f***ed, in the case of discrete cards: just upgrade to a supported type.
Luckily my 6670s run under Mint 17.3 that still can crunch Collatz, at least. (But no Seti, Seti Beta, Prime Grid, Enigma, etc.)

[Dirk Broer]

Ubuntu 16.04 already did away with FGLRX, which is why I upgraded to 17.10 in the first place.
I had hoped that the Open Source drivers for the 17.10 release would have been better -as in supporting a broader range of cards, crunching-wise- ,
but the opposite was the case. In the case of APUs you're f***ed, in the case of discrete cards: just upgrade to a supported type.
Luckily my 6670s run under Mint 17.3 that still can crunch Collatz, at least. (But no Seti, Seti Beta, Prime Grid, Enigma, etc.)

Update:
The option of Wayland or X.org presents itself at boot up now, but choosing X.org does not solve my problems.
The present Bristol Ridge APUs should give no problems as their IGP is a R7, we'll soon find out.
My Linux Mint appears to be at 18.3 and the last software update did away with the crunching support for the HD 6670s (LLVM is 4.0 and should be 5.0, amongst others) Gone are the easy Collatz credits....
The Open Source Radeon driver for Ubuntu 17.10 is at LLVM 5.0, but still has problems with crunching Seti.

Breaking news: Collatz [that will not run on Mint 18.3/Ubuntu 16.04] will run on Ubuntu 17.10 as the needed LLVM 5.0 is now there. It is just that the R3 of the Athlon 5350 is veeerrrrryyy slow running it.
Put in my HD 7790 -whose Bonaire chip is of the same generation as the internal R3- and my problems were solved: Collatz is running again. May even re-enable the R3 for other projects than Collatz.