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14 Nov 2015 19:48:57 UTC
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    1. Linux kernel 4.2
    New AMDGPU kernel driver for supporting recent and near-term Radeon GPUs - this should be of interest!!!

    2.A new kernel for the Raspberry Pi 2 has also landed in the official archive.

    I am currently running Ubuntu Mate on 4 PI2s. Very happy with the OS performance. I AM NOT crunching however and I believe that there was an issue with Ubu's Mate from a crunch perspective. It might now be fixed but again I don't know.

    More available here.

    [EDIT] Just came across the following in "known issues" for the above link which is important:

    AMD's fglrx driver does not work with the current kernel (1493888). It is warmly recommended to uninstall the fglrx driver before upgrading to Ubuntu 15.10. The open source "radeon" driver can be used as a temporary replacement until a fix is available.

    here is why.

    Having read through the thread in the above link I cannot tell if it has been fixed or not. Soooooo, if you try Ubu 15 with AMD you could have a problem.

    Should have read the whole thingy before posting.

    Anonymous

    unbuntu 15 "noteworthys"

    15 Nov 2015 13:22:25 UTC
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      Quote:

      1. Linux kernel 4.2
      New AMDGPU kernel driver for supporting recent and near-term Radeon GPUs - this should be of interest!!!

      2.A new kernel for the Raspberry Pi 2 has also landed in the official archive.

      I am currently running Ubuntu Mate on 4 PI2s. Very happy with the OS performance. I AM NOT crunching however and I believe that there was an issue with Ubu's Mate from a crunch perspective. It might now be fixed but again I don't know.

      More available here.

      [EDIT] Just came across the following in "known issues" for the above link which is important:

      AMD's fglrx driver does not work with the current kernel (1493888). It is warmly recommended to uninstall the fglrx driver before upgrading to Ubuntu 15.10. The open source "radeon" driver can be used as a temporary replacement until a fix is available.

      here is why.


      note this exception: except on Intel+AMD hybrid systems, where intel is used

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      Having read through the thread in the above link I cannot tell if it has been fixed or not. Soooooo, if you try Ubu 15 with AMD you could have a problem.

      Should have read the whole thingy before posting.


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      RE: AMD's fglrx driver

      15 Nov 2015 15:22:24 UTC
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        AMD's fglrx driver does not work with the current kernel (1493888). It is warmly recommended to uninstall the fglrx driver before upgrading to Ubuntu 15.10. The open source "radeon" driver can be used as a temporary replacement until a fix is available.

        here is why.


        Hi thanks now I know what is wrong with my new computer

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        Thanks for the good useful

        17 Nov 2015 23:24:44 UTC
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          Thanks for the good useful note!

          All a game of versions and compatiblity...

          (Really progress or consumerism tripping us all up?)

          Happy cool crunchin,
          Martin

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          RE: All a game of versions

          17 Nov 2015 23:35:26 UTC
          Message 135626 in response to message 135625
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            All a game of versions and compatiblity...

            AMD makes no claim to support anything after Ubuntu 14.04.2

            See

            AMD Catalystâ„¢ 15.9 Proprietary Ubuntu Graphics Driver

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            Distributions supported:

            Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, 14.04.2

            edit: maybe not see Another link

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            Distributions supported:

            Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 7.1, 7.0, 6.6, 6.5
            Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS, 14.04.2, 15.04
            SUSE® Linux Enterprise 11 SP3, 12
            OpenSuSE 13.1

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