Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[O. Sinclair]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 04/11/2014 10:44, George Dvorak wrote:
> I have a quad core AMD A10-6700 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
> with memory shown as 6.82 GiB (what does that mean?) I installed
> Kubuntu 14.04 as soon as it was released and have not had
> problems.
> 
> George Dvorak
> 
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:14 PM, James Cain
> <james.cain.25 at gmail.com <mailto:james.cain.25 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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 --
> 
> 
> ​ Just to add my 2 cents, I have an AMD quad-core (645) 
> processor-based computer that runs Ku flawlessly, including all 
> versions since 12.04 which was when the system was built. Also
> have an ATI graphics card. OTOH, I have an older Dell Intel system
> I use occasionally, with Intel on-board graphics, and it's a
> nightmare with Chrome and with Flash. Even in Firefox, Flash is
> choppy and slow.  With Chrome, it will even occasionally cause a
> kernel panic or otherwise freeze. No such issues on my AMD...
> 
> I think likely there are other issues at play here.​
> 
> 
6.82 Gb is indeed a rather odd figure of RAM. Mine reports 3.7 Gb and
I know the "missing" RAM is used by the graphic processor - meaning I
know I have 4 Gb hardware RAM installed. In reality 4 Gb is 4096 Mb
and so my GPU seems to claim 3 Mb RAM for its own use. If you have 8
Gb RAM then for your GPU to claim well over 1 Gb RAM sounds strange.
Perhaps it is time to check the hardware??


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1

iEYEARECAAYFAlRYpGwACgkQdVb2AWQj/7aNtwCdGRITbfruUBm2i9yg2fkW6tBk
Zt0AoIMxCDhEXGX9UC+9fz3LbHz5PHcn
=IteV
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----