Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[Clay Weber]

On Friday, August 15, 2014 09:13:58 AM seawing wrote:
> This is similar to what I am experiencing.  I recently installed 14.04 
on
> my AMD 64 HP Pavilion and the screen freezes up a couple times a 
day.  It
> is really annoying.  The only thing I can do when it happens is 
REISUB.  I
> have been searching for answers for a few weeks and this is the first 
time
> I have heard a similar situation.  I would love to hear what a solution
> is.  I would really like to not reinstall again.
> 
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> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:27 AM, GH <girardhenri at free.fr> wrote:
> > Maybe try 14.10
> > I have an x8 core AMD and no problem with any version (I am on 
14.10)
> > nvidia proprietary update-331.32
> > 
> > Le 15/08/2014 15:50, bmarsh at bmarsh.com a écrit :
> >>  On Aug 15, 2014, at 1:45 AM, Bruce Marshall 
<bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> >>> Yes, it took me about a week of sticking with 14.04 before it 
settled
> >>> down. I am not sure yet that it is working right. Although it has 
been
> >>> running now for several days (12 days and counting). I don't 
know for
> >>> sure
> >>> if the uptime is counting through reboots or after a reboot. It 
seems
> >>> that
> >>> AMD64 is a red-headed stepchild for some reason. I could 
never an exact
> >>> fix
> >>> on what was causing the freeze, because what I was running 
or not
> >>> running
> >>> varied. You could not get past the start of a boot and it froze, 
while I
> >>> at
> >>> least got to the KDM and ran a program or two before it froze.
> >>> Hopefully,
> >>> they will fix it soon. I know that the debug report window would 
open
> >>> and
> >>> allow me to send the failure report. As to whether or not it 
actually
> >>> arrived, well, your guess is as good as mine. However, it is 
running
> >>> better
> >>> at the moment.
> >> 
> >> I've been running 14.04 on two AMD64 machines since the beta 
and have't
> >> had any such problems.   Both firefox and chrome used to have 
problems
> >> from
> >> time to time but those are now fixed...   You might want to stand 
back
> >> and
> >> think about other possible problems.
> > 
> > --

Are we starting to confuse amd64 (64 bit) - the cpu architecture with 
AMD the cpu/gpu company and products? 

it is highly unlikely that 64 bit architecture and the cpus running it 
(from both Intel and AMD) are specific reasons for bugginess. Possible, 
yes, but unlikely.  

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Clay Weber (claydoh)
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