Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[Bill Vance]

Well, I finally got an install disk, that sort of
installed.  Sort of.  Nice splash screen.
Unfortunately, thats about all the good I can say
for it.  Let me briefly step back.  Last week, my
faithfull old Optiquest Q71 monitor died, and I
replaced it with a 13"x22" LED monitor, that is
just spiffy, not to mention humongous, compared
to the old Optiquest.

Back to the present.  In many various installs
from a number of different *nix's, including
kubuntu, if there was ever a problem reading
what was there, you simply did the Ctrl-Alt-
+ or - thing to adjust the resolution to
something more visable/readable.  Not so
with 14.04.  From square one you are locked
into a resolution that requires an electron
microscope to just to see that there are
words there, let alone actually read them.

This on a brand new humongous monitor.
Yeah, that's right, I had to go get my
magnifying glass.  Once the system,
"installed", the resolution _still_
couldn't be adjusted with the usual
three keys.  Thinking perhaps, that
this might be solved with the usual
updating of the software, I started
that, and discovered a most annoying
little window, which claimed that
_I_ had interupted the session, and
demanded my password to restart it.
It did this every four or five minutes,
or thereabouts, during a very long
download session.

Once all that was all over with, still
no joy on the resolution changing front.

Unlike previous incarnations of kubuntu,
there is no way in System Settings to
test various resolutions.  There is a
list of resolutions, but all you can do
is click on one, and then on, "apply".

Giving it a try, the screen then turned
a light tan, with nothing on it, and
quit responding to the keyboard and mouse.

A soft reboot brought up a screen that
was all a darkish blue, again with nothing
on it, and again, no responce to the
keyboard, or mouse.

I had to re-install 12.04 to get back to
something actually usable.  All I can
think of to say to Canonical at this
point, is don't be in any rush to get
rid of 12.04.  From the looks of 14.04,
it's got a _long_ way to go before it's,
"ready for prime time."