nVidia/AMD - Proprietary/Open-Source Drivers?

[Jesse Palser]

Hi,

I have an AMD Radeon HD 7870 PCIe 2GB GDDR5 graphic adapter.
Is it supported by AMD proprietary display driver?
Thanks!

Jesse



On 01/07/2015 08:42 AM, Clay Weber wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -- 
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>
>

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