I went back and tried to install the official AMD drivers thinking that was the problem.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 unity-control-center : Depends: libcheese-gtk23 (>= 3.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                        Depends: libcheese7 (>= 3.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
mine@mine:~/silentarmy$ 

I am on 14.04 using 5x 280x.  I was on 16.04 until I realized that they don't make drivers for the 280x for that version of Ubuntu so I downgraded.  Doesn't matter to me which version I am on.  This is strictly a mining machine.  Thanks for your time.