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howtos:hardware:proprietary_graphics_drivers [2015/07/02 09:48 (UTC)] – [AMD (ATI) Catalyst Driver Installation and Configuration] timhowtos:hardware:proprietary_graphics_drivers [2016/12/09 04:52 (UTC)] (current) reedych
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 AMD are dropping support for older cards (4xxx and downwards) in the current (12.6) and future releases of the proprietary drivers, so please make sure that your card is still supported. If it is not, then the open source ''xf86-video-ati'' driver should be sufficient, albeit a bit slower than the proprietary version. AMD are dropping support for older cards (4xxx and downwards) in the current (12.6) and future releases of the proprietary drivers, so please make sure that your card is still supported. If it is not, then the open source ''xf86-video-ati'' driver should be sufficient, albeit a bit slower than the proprietary version.
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 +**Note:** the driver will not work on 14.2 because Catalyst supports only Xorg 1.17 and 3.19 (or no?).
  
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