Am I waisting my time?

[crazyn0va]

@Kiara, I was working on your recommendations when I noticed that the AMD drivers say:

Distributions supported:
Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, 14.04.2

I wonder if they will work with 17.10 or should i just get the 14.04.2?
Currently when I run with proprietary distro drivers the GPU is not recognized.

@Undeath - I agree it's old but it plays all the games I have thrown at it, I'm kinda broke and the wifiy will kill me if I spend money on a GPU. Can you recommended any cheap options that will help me crack WPA2 in a timely fashion? (maybe I can ask for a Christmas gift?)

Update:
So I gave it a try in Ubuntu 17.10 Installed the AMD drivers with the instructions found here.

Code:

root@a-desktop:/home/a/AMD Drivers# sudo dpkg -l fglrx fglrx-core fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-dev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
iU  fglrx          2:15.201-0ub amd64        Video driver for the AMD graphics
iU  fglrx-amdcccle 2:15.201-0ub amd64        Catalyst Control Center for the A
iU  fglrx-core     2:15.201-0ub amd64        Minimal video driver for the AMD
iU  fglrx-dev      2:15.201-0ub amd64        Video driver for the AMD graphics

However when I run config I get:

Code:

root@a-desktop:/home/a/AMD Drivers# amdconfig --adapter=all --initial -f
No protocol specified
Unable to open /etc/ati/control, please reinstall the driver.
amdconfig: No supported adapters detected

Not sure if I have it installed properly - but the gpu is still not detected with -d 2
Should I be getting "RadeonOpenCompute (ROCm)" Software Platform (1.6.180 or later)?

I did run a few test programs from AMD and it showed no errors and played the gears "clip".