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My video card is Radeon R9 270 Dual-X. I've read a lot about overwhelming performance of OpenSource drivers compared to proprietary ones, so I'd really like to move to OS drivers. However! I did everything as mentioned on the official Ubuntu wiki page concerning AMD video drivers but still, when I run

glxinfo | grep rend

I get 

OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

Which means (as I suppose) that I still use software renderer, which is definitely not good for gaming.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: I fixed this problem by upgrading from 14.04 to 15.04, but this is not a real fix, just some sort of low qualification level workaround. I think, that the root of the problem lies somewhere in an uncorrectly installed drivers, so a possible solution to this is reinstalling Oibaf drivers. To do so run:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo reboot

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo reboot
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  • Create an answer with your solution.
    – A.B.
    Oct 21, 2015 at 10:45
  • I have no tested solution
    – Sergey Maslov
    Oct 21, 2015 at 10:51
  • oibaf packages for 14.04 are only for installs that come from an 14.04 or 14.04.1 image. (ie. no lts mesa packages.
    – doug
    Oct 21, 2015 at 12:40
  • doug, could you please provide more information on this?
    – Sergey Maslov
    Oct 21, 2015 at 12:43

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