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| Where is AMD's Linux Driver for HD 6000 Series? | |
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?
Last edited by Regeneration; December 29th, 2010 at 08:38 PM.
| | | | 10 Comments | | Posted by Unregistered on December 29th, 2010, 09:18 PM | AMD simply is focusing on their main base. Why focus on releasing drivers for the two people who actually use linux, with top of the line gaming hardware? When most, if not all of those top of the line games that need that hardware wont even run on Linux? (I'm not knocking Linux just stating a fact).
Same reason why hackers focus on PC's 1,000 times more then macs, its all in the number of users. | | | Posted by Regeneration on December 30th, 2010, 12:44 AM | Quote:
Originally Posted by Unregistered  AMD simply is focusing on their main base. Why focus on releasing drivers for the two people who actually use linux, with top of the line gaming hardware? When most, if not all of those top of the line games that need that hardware wont even run on Linux? (I'm not knocking Linux just stating a fact).
Same reason why hackers focus on PC's 1,000 times more then macs, its all in the number of users. | Two people? Most of the world's internet servers run on Apache/Linux. Just because Linux isn't popular among home-users doesn't mean that only two people use it.
Many enterprises, businesses, universities, governments, militaries, developers use Linux/Unix. And GPUs aren't used just for gaming, there are other purposes as well.
It took Nvidia 2 days to release a Linux driver for GTX 580.
Hackers target Windows platforms because it's more accessible and easier to exploit. In fact, hackers prefer Unix-based systems because usually these are servers with a lot of bandwidth and could be used to DDoS, host botnets, spam, etc. But the thing is... Linux is more secured and harder to hack to. | | | Posted by DarkLobo on December 30th, 2010, 02:00 PM | I have never used Linux, but shouldnt a product be supported for all Existing and used OS? AMD should release a driver for Linux, Mac and Windows when ever they release a GPU. | | | Posted by dzap on December 30th, 2010, 09:24 PM | Actually im happy they dont waste time on linux or any other OS drivers. Since the goal of these gaming focused gpus is Win7 and nothing else. | | | Posted by lyla on December 30th, 2010, 09:51 PM | You say:
"""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."""
Some clarification please,
"unofficially", do they work? | | | Posted by Regeneration on December 30th, 2010, 10:08 PM | | | | | Posted by Nanogrip on January 1st, 2011, 05:33 AM | Yeah I hope AMD collect themselves and bring more support to Linux drivers soon. I only use my Windows PC for gaming and everything else on Ubuntu so it would be nice if there is some love spread on the Linux bread. | | | Posted by SpectatorX on January 1st, 2011, 05:29 PM | Regeneration, could you post instruction how to mod driver to install it for hd6xxx on linux or just publish modded driver? This would be nice. | | | Posted by Unregistered on January 10th, 2011, 12:40 AM | Quote:
Originally Posted by SpectatorX Regeneration, could you post instruction how to mod driver to install it for hd6xxx on linux or just publish modded driver? This would be nice. | There are some RC drivers floating around (as I am using them on my system at this moment) from early October. | | | Posted by jcgeny on February 1st, 2011, 07:02 AM | ubuntu is "has-been" , fedora14 is extraordinary with my pc ;']
installed it and i have the screen with my 3 monitors connected to the hd5970
i installed kmod-ati drivers and the monitor connected to the gtx570 started to be on and displayed a F logo showing loading .
i will install kmod-nvidia today and see how it does .
i used ubuntu 9.04 and liked it a lot , 10 disappointed me a lot when i tested it , 10.10 is not starting xserver with my current pc
the kmod-ati are 10.12 catalyst , they need all updates to be installed , especially the kernel | | 
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