Can you install AMD Omega Drivers on Kali?

[Panther]

Hello, I recently installed the latest version of Kali (1.1.0) and I'm struggling to install the latest AMD Catalyst Drivers which are supposed to be better for linux. Whenever I try to install them I always get an error during the kernal stage at 91% of the installation. I was wondering if anyone has managed to install these drivers, and if so then how did you manage to do it?

[Jito]

Hi.
I may be able to help.
I've managed to install the AMD omega drivers on a HDD install of Kali but not a USB live with persistence install.
If you've installed to HDD let me know & I'll reply with the steps I took to get the install working.

[Amadeus]

Hi Jito
I am very much interested in your approach!
I downloaded the driver 14.501.1003 from the official ati support page and followed
the patching steps described in this blog: http://henryhermawan.blogspot.ch/.
I also tried the newest catalyst beta driver - but no matter what I do, it doesn't work.

Whenever I type fglrxinfo it responds with: "Error: unable to open display (null)".

Best regards
Amadeus

[Jito]

Hi Amadeus.

You might want to try this guide posted by a fellow member:
https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...-on-Kali-1-1-0
Obviously this isn't 14.501 but it may help you all the same.

Jito

[Amadeus]

Hi Jito
Many thanks for your suggestion, i'll check it out as soon as I am at home the next time and will report whether it works :-)

[Amadeus]

So i tried to follow your instructions which seems to work more or less. Yet, oclhascat uses only one graphics device:

lspci | grep VGA
------------------
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]

amd-config --list-devices
----------------------------
* 0. 01:00.0 AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
1. 02:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
2. 03:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 200 Series
3. 05:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
4. 06:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
5. 07:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series

oclhashcat -b
---------------
oclHashcat v1.36 starting in benchmark-mode...

Device #1: Tahiti, 2995MB, 1000Mhz, 32MCU

ATTENTION! Unsupported or incorrect installed GPU driver detected!


Do you have any ideas?

P.S.
I also tried "ati-config --initial -f --adapter=all"

Best regards

[staticn0de]

So i tried to follow your instructions which seems to work more or less. Yet, oclhascat uses only one graphics device:

lspci | grep VGA
------------------
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Tahiti XT [Tadeon HD 7970]

amd-config --list-devices
----------------------------
* 0. 01:00.0 AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
1. 02:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
2. 03:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 200 Series
3. 05:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
4. 06:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series
5. 07:00.0 AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series

oclhashcat -b
---------------
oclHashcat v1.36 starting in benchmark-mode...

Device #1: Tahiti, 2995MB, 1000Mhz, 32MCU

ATTENTION! Unsupported or incorrect installed GPU driver detected!


Do you have any ideas?

P.S.
I also tried "ati-config --initial -f --adapter=all"

Best regards

Take a look in the fglrx cal++ thread in the community guide section. There is some discussion on getting multi gpus to work.