AMD To Drop Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 Catalyst Support

[BO$$]

you can use r600g, which is still being heavily worked on.
I think your aged GPU is actually one of the best supported by open driver. I think its the best that can happen to an old card. Much better than no driver at all.
But if you are despirate and can cough some money for newer GPU, why don't you send the 3470 over to radeon developers? Ask on IRC.

Nexuiz is a bit choppy now when with catalyst worked perfectly (same settings)

[BO$$]

An ati hd 3470 costs now around 15 € with shipping. If you like try to sell it, a Win user might buy it. I have got a hd 4550 card as well, but i do not freak out when there is no driver update for it, then i just use a different card. pci-e cards are so easy to change, i need less than 1 min to do so, must be very hard for you to buy something that works I would not cry for a card with that value.

I have a laptop...Toshiba Sattelite a300 jh1

[Kano]

Well do not worry, every ati owner has got the same problem Maybe open your laptop and look if the gfx part could be replaced.

[smitty3268]

Will this driver ever leave beta state?

It already has. All you have to do is go to AMD's website and look up the drivers.

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...eon_linux.aspx gives you 12.6 (non-beta)

Will there be a version that supports xserver > 1.12? Or newer kernels?

Most likely, although there is no guarantee and it probably won't be timely. It will happen when AMD's corporate partners request it.

[TobiSGD]

It's not like you won't get software updates at all...

If your system is running and you stick with your hardware, you won't need the newest kernel to support your hardware.
Sure, you might miss some features...
...but it's not like you are completely stranded. You still have the choice.

Nope, I don't have the choice. I don't have the choice to run a 3.5 or 3.6 kernel to test the latest btrfs or whatever is new in those kernels.
Because AMD thinks I don't need to.
In the past I have always recommended AMD and I use AMD in two of my machines (CPU and video). With behavior like this they have lost me as a customer for the future.

[Ren Höek]

Nope, I don't have the choice. I don't have the choice to run a 3.5 or 3.6 kernel to test the latest btrfs or whatever is new in those kernels.[..]

My argument was:

He can stick with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for Catalyst and it's better 3D Performance, playing Nexius etc...
He can test out the newest 12.10 Beta using radeon, testing the newest kernel and it's features...

That's his choice. He can even have them on a dual boot system, if he likes.

...probably his hardware is supported in 12.04 and he won't need the newest kernels to do so.
To have the newest kernel, just to have the newest kernel, without needing/using the new features? This doesn't seem that necessary.

But if he really stumbles upon a needed new feature, he has to make his decision. With some luck, Catalyst maybe even get's updated at that time.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not biased.
I'm writing this on a laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700. Support was dropped long ago and I don't have the choice any more. I have to use radeon, even for it's poor 3D performance and power management.

I just wanted to say, that his panic attack and swearing outburst was inappropriate.

[TobiSGD]

My argument was:

He can stick with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for Catalyst and it's better 3D Performance, playing Nexius etc...
He can test out the newest 12.10 Beta using radeon, testing the newest kernel and it's features...

May be possible on desktop systems. Not possible on my laptop with HD3200 that overheats with radeon because poor power management.

[oliver]

May be possible on desktop systems. Not possible on my laptop with HD3200 that overheats with radeon because poor power management.

Have you opened up a bugreport about this issue? r[36]00g development is changing almost daily, bugs are solved frequently and support improving.

I still agree AMD pulled the plug a little too soon, but with the opensource drivers being quite good and improving steadily, for anything but gaming it should be more then adequate.

[TobiSGD]

Have you opened up a bugreport about this issue? r[36]00g development is changing almost daily, bugs are solved frequently and support improving.

Yes.

I still agree AMD pulled the plug a little too soon, but with the opensource drivers being quite good and improving steadily, for anything but gaming it should be more then adequate.

Quite good? You must be kidding. Poor power management (I must re-think if you can call that management, since you have to manage it yourself with choosing a profile), no video decoding, partially only 30% of the performance of Catalyst. If that is quite good I want to see what you would call bad.
radeon for me (and many other laptop owners) is unusable and an unusable driver is definitely not "quite good".

[Mi7ch3a2el]

haha ,awesome!humor...