| | Where is AMD's Linux Driver for HD 6000 Series? | | Posted by Regeneration on 08:26 PM, December 29th, 2010 - 10 Comments
Two months ago AMD introduced the Radeon HD 6800 series. 69 days to be precise. In those 69 days, AMD released the following drivers:
• Catalyst 10.10
• Catalyst 10.10a Hotfix
• Catalyst 10.10b Hotfix
• Catalyst 10.10c Hotfix
• Catalyst 10.10d Hotfix
• Catalyst 10.10e Hotfix
• Catalyst 10.11
• Catalyst 10.12
• Catalyst 10.12 CCC 2 Preview
• Catalyst 10.12a Hotfix
Ten driver releases within 69 days. That's pretty impressive.
Earlier today I've installed a Radeon HD 6870 into my Ubuntu-powered Linux system and discovered that the HD 6000 series are still officially unsupported on Linux. There isn't even a single Linux driver on AMD's website with support for HD 6000 series. It seems that only Catalyst 11.1 is likely to feature support for HD 6000 series on Linux.
Why does it take three months for AMD to release a Linux driver with support for the HD 6000 series?
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