Posted on Friday, April 20 2012 @ 14:44 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Phoronix
reveals AMD will soon drop support for the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics card in their Linux driver:
In what will certainly be controversial and disappointing to
some Radeon Linux desktop users, AMD will soon announce that they will
effectively be discontinuing support for several Radeon product families
from their proprietary Catalyst driver. After that point, for future
Linux distribution updates, the open-source Radeon Linux driver will be
your only option for accelerated graphics. This is likely happening with
the Windows Catalyst driver too, but at least there they have a
better-maintained legacy driver process.
