My last server install was a while ago when it was 14.04 (not 14.04.2) and I'm not sure if the tutorial steps will still produce a functional install as listed.
I'm in the process of a new headless install after a fiasco of trying to get Catalyst 14.9 working on a desktop distro. One of the things I am fairly sure of from said fiasco is that 14.9 does not work with X server > 1.5 (possibly it is > 1.6, but AMD specifies 1.5 is the highest version). There is a different method of returning the X version string in later versions that causes the driver compilation to fail.
On the linux server tutorial it says to use 14.04.2. It doesn't really matter if it is subversion 2 or 0 because server doesn't come with X and you have to get it from the Trusty repo anyways.
The version on the Trusty repo is X 1.7. From my experience the drivers will not compile against that version of X, short of perhaps patching the AMD installer.
This is probably my 5th or 6th fresh install so I'm hoping to not botch this one too by getting a bunch of incompatible packages and have to start over again because debian package manager is brutal when things get sideways... makes me yearn for the days when everything was compiled from local source.
I guess the question is... anyone here done a Ubuntu server install with AMD 14.9 drivers recently, as described in the tutorial, without issue... or did you have to patch the amd installer or use legacy repos?
I'm in the process of a new headless install after a fiasco of trying to get Catalyst 14.9 working on a desktop distro. One of the things I am fairly sure of from said fiasco is that 14.9 does not work with X server > 1.5 (possibly it is > 1.6, but AMD specifies 1.5 is the highest version). There is a different method of returning the X version string in later versions that causes the driver compilation to fail.
On the linux server tutorial it says to use 14.04.2. It doesn't really matter if it is subversion 2 or 0 because server doesn't come with X and you have to get it from the Trusty repo anyways.
The version on the Trusty repo is X 1.7. From my experience the drivers will not compile against that version of X, short of perhaps patching the AMD installer.
This is probably my 5th or 6th fresh install so I'm hoping to not botch this one too by getting a bunch of incompatible packages and have to start over again because debian package manager is brutal when things get sideways... makes me yearn for the days when everything was compiled from local source.
I guess the question is... anyone here done a Ubuntu server install with AMD 14.9 drivers recently, as described in the tutorial, without issue... or did you have to patch the amd installer or use legacy repos?