[13.04 64Bit]-Ugly Boot/Shutdown Screens-AMD Proprietary Driver?

[Jesse Palser]

On 07/11/2013 07:17 AM, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Jesse Palser
> <jessepalsermailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [13.04 64Bit]-Ugly Boot/Shutdown Screens-AMD Proprietary Driver?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed Kubuntu 13.04 64Bit on my desktop.
>>
>> After I installed the proprietary AMD display driver(AMD Radeon HD 7800),
>> the boot/shutdown screens are ugly text?
> Are you sure you need the proprietary driver? Normally the free Radeon
> driver is way superior for Linux. So unless you need something very
> specific the free driver doesn't have you should not use the
> proprietary driver.
>
> Regards, Myriam
>
Hi,

The open-source AMD driver was not fully compatible with my Radeon HD 
7800 card.
The two AMD drivers that Kubuntu 13.04 offers were not compatible either.

I downloaded and installed the current beta proprietary AMD Linux 
display driver and all is OK.
(my Valve Steam games for Windows work great now using current WINE)

With AMD beta driver, the pretty boot/shutdown screens are working.
Thanks!

Jesse