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fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #1058040
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1058040

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Christian Convey (christian-convey) wrote : Re: fglrx-installer does not support HD2000-4000 "legacy" cards

I'm going to add a comment to help people Googling this issue. The ATI Mobility M7740 chip, which was one option for the Dell M6500 Mobile Precision laptop, is apparently considered a 4000-series chip, and so is a victim of this AMD policy.

One of the supposed justifications for over-priced "workstation-class" graphics chips was top-notch vendor support. By so cutting short its support of this chip, AMD has demonstrated that they can't be trusted to support workstation-level users.

Unless something radically changes, I can't see buy AMD for my Linux laptops / desktops anymore. What a shame.