I recently re-installed linux (mint 17) and after I built and ran my project it complained about failing to load swrast. I figured I'd have to install the ati drivers and indeed it fixed the issue:
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland XT [Radeon HD 8670 / R7 250] bus- ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 driver: fglrx Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: AMD Radeon R7 200 Series GLX Version: 4.4.13283 - CPC 14.501.1003 Direct Rendering: Yes
Problem I'm having now is that I can't build the project anymore, as make can't find libGL.so
No rule to make target `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so
Had a look and there seems to be a renamed version, I don't know what's going on...
/usr/lib/FGL.renamed.libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib/fglrx/fglrx-libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/fglrx/fglrx-libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/FGL.renamed.libGL.so.1.2.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mesa/FGL.renamed.libGL.so.1.2.0
I think I have to create some links but I don't know which. I've done it in the past and it messed up the ati installation.
Got it to work. I realized netbeans hadn't actually regenerated my make file after I installed the ati drivers and I think it was trying to pull in dependencies from the old location. Sure the drivers still do some funky things but at least I think they create their own symlink. I deleted the project and re-imported it and it works as it should now.