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Newer AMD Radeon GPUs Have Had A Tough Time With Linux 3.15
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Originally posted by Nuc!eoN View PostPuh I really hope that kernel 3.15 will be alright. I already need to skip kernel 3.14 becasue in this release my R7 260x is quite sincerely broken, and the fix is told to come only in 3.15 :s
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DRM refers to Digital Rights Management code and that definitely has to do with encryption
since it encrypts data to protect it.
"Short for digital rights management, a system for protecting the copyrights of data circulated via the Internet or other digital media by enabling secure distribution and/or disabling illegal distribution of the data. Typically, a DRM system protects intellectual property by either encrypting the data so that it can only be accessed by authorized users or marking the content with a digital watermark or similar method so that the content can not be freely distributed."
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Digital restrictions management requires some form of encryption
Originally posted by droidhacker View PostYou seem confused.
DRM has *nothing* to do with encryption.
This is why it surprises me that Hollywood is not whining about Nvidia porting their Windows driver to Linux-or for that matter Windows XP, which predates the Microsoft-Hollywood alliance
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Originally posted by d2kx View PostMy R7 260X doesn't even boot (Linux 3.13/3.14, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) into the system, no matter if dpm is on or not. It only works with nomodeset (software rendering) and installing Catalyst afterwards. I have a feeling this will be fixed with the new firmware that had been pushed few weeks ago, but I haven't had the chance to try yet
I did have to do the same step in using nomodset and then installing the nvidia blob. I thought AMD had good open source support on newer (or at least, current gen.) cards.
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Seriously people, how do you expect your hardware to work without reporting the bugs? you don't want to cooperate with the devs and everyone else?
At least do some tiny effort...
#radeon in irc.freenode.net
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Not exactly
Originally posted by dungeon View PostAs you see that is very similar choice: red or green - doesn't matter in both cases you will run a blob .
A newly-released card usually does NOT work in pre-existing Linux installs right away, it taking anywhere from a couple months (new minor change generation) to a year or more (major architectural change) to get them online. That's why I normally advise people buying video cards to use with open drivers to get last year's AMD card unless the newer card they are considering has been getting good results for others. Never buy new hardware blind for Linux, used computers/parts haven't had much of that sort of trouble because by the time it's in the dumpster all the drivers have been out a long time.
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