Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Mon Nov 3 16:19:41 UTC 2014


On Monday 03 November 2014 06:49:08 Jesse Palser did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 11/03/2014 06:38 AM, Bill Vance wrote:
> > Its been a little while, so I'll ask:  Has 14.04
> > improved to the point where it treats AMD machines
> > in a civilized manner?  I wouldn't mind upgrading,
> > but I don't want to keep wasting my time and effort
> > on crap that won't work at all, let alone work
> > properly.
> > 
> > Bill
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My AMD GPU constantly crashes Flash in Google Chrome,
> so no - nothing has improved....
> 
> :(
> 
> Jesse

I am getting the "Oh snap" displays from chromium entirely too often, and 
don't even have an AMD GPU.  NVidia video, neauvou driver.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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