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The open Source drivers don't work perfectly for everything.

For desktop use, I would certainly recommend the Open Source drivers
over the proprietary ones.   They actually run WebGL and JavaScript
canvas functions faster.

However, for gaming, the Open Source drivers currently lack full OpenGL
4.x support, and thus run into certain issues with some shaders not
rendering properly on the latest games.

Even if this were not the case, it is not a reason to refuse to update
the drivers.


As of the latest XOrg, it seems to be running fine with the X-Edgers version of XOrg and the current Ubuntu package.  I suspect if the XOrg support patches are pushed forward to the latest driver release they should still work.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1462027

Title:
  [Needs updating] Update fglrx to include AMD 15.5

Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  AMD Catalyst 15.05 is released in 2/6/2015. Update FGLRX to include
  this latest driver.

  Source: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Linux+x86. 
  I used ubuntu-bug to report, so there's lots of information about previous version.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: fglrx (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-18.18-generic 3.19.6
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-18-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Thu Jun  4 18:27:45 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-05-23 (11 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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