Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday, November 04, 2014 07:25:08 AM Billie Walsh wrote:
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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?

No, it is so-called "hybrid" graphics, where there are two gpus on a computer,  
laptops mainly, one for low power, battery conserving use and the other for 
high performance, switchable as required (probably simply and automatically in 
Windows, I presume?)

> 
> 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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