how to check ATI CATALYST driver version on linux/ubuntu

[Tereska]

how to check ATI CATALYST driver version on linux/ubuntu?
i have only ssh access to machine

[jh1523]

dmesg | grep fglrx

Will give you a ton of information including the date of the driver, e.g:

Code:

[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.86.5 [May 24 2011]

[Tereska]

thank you.i've got:

fglrx 8.80.5 [Nov 25 2010]

how can i tell it is catalyst 11.X version?

[jh1523]

There should be somewhere a list of dates when various catalyst versions were released.

(edit) http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/previous/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx

Looks like 10.11 or 10.12 by the date.

[Tereska]

wow. my drivers are very old....

do i get better MH/s rate with newer drivers on 5830 cards?

[jh1523]

Dunno, but I am getting terrific hash rates on my 5870 & 5850 with the driver version I posted above... should be catalyst 11.6

[Tereska]

thank you for helping me with all this stuff. bye