nVidia/AMD - Proprietary/Open-Source Drivers?

[Clay Weber]

It is possible that your GPU is not supported with the closed source, proprietary driver. You didn't say what card you have, but AMD do seem to drop device support much earlier than Nvidia.

On January 7, 2015 6:51:46 AM EST, Jesse Palser <jessepalsermailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I installed Kubuntu 14.04 L.T.S. 64Bit onto two different desktops.
>I am confused about proprietary and open-source display drivers.
>
>On my Intel/nVidia desktop, after the O.S. is installed I am prompted
>to 
>install
>nVidia proprietary display driver which I do and all is well.
>
>On my AMD/AMD desktop, after the O.S. is installed I am NOT prompted to
>
>install
>AMD proprietary display driver?
>
>So everything is good on the Intel/nVidia desktop, but not on AMD/AMD 
>desktop.
>Are the AMD proprietary display drivers bad?
>Are the open-source AMD drivers OK?
>(can I play 3D Windows games under WINE?)
>
>Just a little confused, please advise...
>
>Jesse
>
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