Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[Billie Walsh]

On 11/04/2014 02:31 AM, O. Sinclair wrote:
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> On 03/11/2014 14:09, Jesse Palser wrote:
>> On 11/03/2014 07:07 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>>> On 11/03/2014 05:49 AM, Jesse Palser wrote:
>>>> 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 find that Flash is poorly supported in Linux in general.
>>> Sometime it will work and sometimes it won't. Pot luck. And, in
>>> my opinion Google Chrome just plain sucks to start with
>>> so................
>>>
>>> Ever stop to think that maybe it's the software and not the
>>> operating system/CPU that is the issue.
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I never had problems with anything on my other desktop with
>> Intel/NVidia. I blame AMD for my desktop's problems in Kubuntu...
>>
>> Jesse
>>
> I don't really "blame" anyone for my choice of distro. Since 12.10
> Kubuntu my "hybrid" AMD/Intel GPU is not supported by AMD proprietary
> drivers any more (though they claim it is on their website) and I rely
> on vgaswitcheroo to disable the to me totally unneeded batterysucking
> GPU I was sadly unaware was included on the HP laptop I bought.
>
> Yes, it irritates me but I don't think I can blame AMD for something
> that I am told works on other distros. Neither do I think I can blame
> the Kubuntu packagers for the fact that Kubuntu is my distro of choice.
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> And that the Radeon devs dont put too much effort into the rather odd
> hybrid-gpu thing I can actually also understand.
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Something you said just jumped out at me.

You disable the GPU [ Graphics Processor Unit ] as unnecessary?

I'm no genius but I do know that the GPU is responsible for putting the 
stuff on the screen. That's kind of like poking your eyes out and 
wondering why you can't see anything.

Also, the AMD with Intel GPU bothers me. Did you replace the graphics 
with an Intel based graphics card or is it onboard Intel chip set with 
an AMD CPU installed?

If it's an add-on Intel graphics board it might be made to work. If your 
running an AMD CPU on an Intel board your asking for trouble. Mother 
boards are designed for either an Intel or an AMD CPU. All the 
supporting chips are optimized to run a particular manufacturers CPU. 
Putting an AMD CPU on an Intel mother board, and vice versa, is just 
asking for trouble. It ain't like the olden days when you just plugged 
in whatever was laying around.

When I first started playing around with Linux Nvidia graphics were the 
graphics of choice for running Linux. Radeon was not well supported. 
Then AMD bought out Radeon and all that changed. As far as I'm concerned 
Radeon is the graphics of choice. I have an upper mid range/low high end 
Radeon graphics card installed with the Catalyst Drives and it kicks 
butt in Linux.

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