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Originally Posted by AndrewAmmerlaan
These problems are 100% sure AMD's fault, and they know about it, if you look at the release notes there is a list of unsolved bugs.
As I understand it the Amd driver for linux is maintained by a voluntary team, Amd's priorities are not with linux but with windows, therefore the Amd drivers for linux will never be as good as their windows drivers. There are some distros which include fglrx as default, they seem to work fine with fglrx, don't know how they do it.
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1- For me, AMD proprietary drivers runs fine on Linux. Thats why i'm using X Plane 10 on Linux.. Of course they have issues.. But the latest two Catalyst Betas fixed issues affecting X Plane for Linux.
2- I don't think is AMD's fault.. I think it's only a bad configuration that affects Toshiba users with a 7670m (EFI with FGLRX works fine on my Desktop PC, with a 7970).. Did you try to install the latest 3.14 kernel? Not even the Open Source Radeon drivers works on UEFI with the 3.14 Kernel.. You'll get a black flashing screen (watch my video)
3- I remember when i bought my last PC.. Gigabyte G1.Assassin 2.. None of my network cards (included with the Mobo) was working in linux.. Now, the WLAN works! I think it's only a matter of time before Grub2 developers enables GOP on our hardware.. (btw, i filled a bug report on Grub2 page)
4- The issues are completely fixable by making Grub2-EFI boot with GOP video mode (i don't know how to do it).. Or, by using rEFInd with GOP enabled (wich i show in my video).
