Felix Miata wrote: > >> so linux friendly that they dropped support for older cards in newer >> kernels, so that our older computers render unusable > > Which older cards are unsupported by either ati and/or modesetting FOSS > drivers? All my Radeon and FireGL still work. I've never needed a > proprietary Xorg driver for an ATI gfxchip. >
I don't recall the exact model, but it must be 10y old. while it was working good with ubuntu 14 I think kernel 3.x, it was not possible to watch any video stream in ubuntu 16. Kernel - driver issue https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/AMD and I don't know what was in ubuntu 16.04, but it simply did not work. >> as for the number 2 company needs support, perhaps true, but they have to >> put more effort as well > > AMD puts its effort directly into FOSS rather than proprietary. It gets my > vote.
