Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[Cody Smith]

12.04 actually coincides with when AMD split the driver ( HD 5xxx/4xxx/3xxx
were split into a "legacy" driver that is updated far less often than the
driver for newer cards), all this makes far more sense from a business
standpoint, they can't keep supporting old cards indefinitely. It's just
not feasible.

AMD is basically saying "get a new card if you want to use our drivers",
kind of a slap to the face IMO.

--c_smith

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, 8:31 PM Stephen Morris <samorris at netspace.net.au>
wrote:

> On 11/03/2014 10:38 PM, 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 Bill,
>      Just my 2 cents worth. What do you mean by AMD machines? I have
> never used any machine with a cpu other than AMD and I have never had
> any issues with any version of Ubuntu, or for that matter any other
> Linux I have used. Having said that though I also never use any graphics
> card other than Nvidia.
>
> regards,
> Steve
>
>
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