0003974: installing amd driver not working

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0003974	Kali Linux	Kali Websites & Docs	public	2017-04-27 19:15	2025-07-14 09:36

Reporter	badtrip90	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	not fixable
Product Version	2016.2

Summary	0003974: installing amd driver not working
Description	i have problems installing the amd driver because of the too old xserver 1.19.2_64a AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver Installer/Packager error: Detected X Server version 'XServer 1.19.2_64a' is not supported. Supported versions are X.Org 6.9 or later, up to XServer 1.10 (default:v2:x86_64:lib:XServer 1.19.2_64a:none:4.9.0-kali3-amd64:) Installation will not proceed. Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.DxGOFt

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-04-27 19:15	badtrip90	New Issue
2017-04-28 08:47	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2017-04-28 08:47	rhertzog	Status	new => closed
2017-04-28 08:47	rhertzog	Resolution	open => not fixable
2017-04-28 08:47	rhertzog	Note Added: 0006603
2025-07-14 09:36	g0tmi1k	Priority	high => normal

AMD Catalyst(TM) Proprietary Driver Installer/Packager

rhertzog 2017-04-28 08:47 administrator ~0006603	The problem is not that Kali has a too old Xorg server, the problem is that it is too new for the proprietary driver (1.19 >> 1.10). AMD needs to update its proprietary driver... There's nothing that we can fix here. And this is the reason why fglrx got dropped as a Debian package.