Bug 102394

Please find out what version of Mesa was working vs the Padoka PPA version and add that to this bug report. To get that you can use:

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

From there it would be very helpful if you could build mesa from source and do a git bisect to discover the commit that caused the regression. You can get assistance with this on the freenode #radeon IRC channel if you need it.

To be honest I'm not sure what version it worked. On my laptop which runs a Radeon HD 6000 series GPU, also ran fine a few weeks ago, and then this started to happen after an update.  Removing the Padoka PPA will fix the problem as well, but then I revert to whatever comes with Mint 18.2.  

Anyway this is what my laptop says, but it also has the same problem as my desktop with the Radeon HD 7850.  I'll see what I can do about finding which version it worked.

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.12.5-041205-generic, LLVM 6.0.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.3.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.3.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 17.3.0-devel - padoka PPA
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

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