AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 14:10:31 +0000,
   Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
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><rant>
>ATI is known to have a notoriously lousy support for Linux in general
>and Fedora in particular. For their low-end and oldish cards,
>they provide specs on which the Linux community has built the
>open-source radeon driver (which works well). For their high-end cards,
>they refuse to provide specs (so no open-source driver), while their
>closed-source catalyst (fglrx) driver is a miserable POS that is almost
>never up-to-date with the latest kernel and X.

There was a period where they weren't providing specs on post r200 chips. 
However currently they are providing specs for most of the GPU features. 
Lately they have been opening up more even for the video encoding and 
decoding features. (They have to be really careful there, as if there 
is information released that lets people bypass DRM and gets their 
chips black listed in Windows it could cost them a lot of money.)

>In contrast, nVidia does not give away the specs for their cards, but
>their closed-source driver simply Just Works(tm). Also, recently nVidia
>folks decided to provide some (limited) specs to the open-source nouveau
>devs, so there seems to be some light at the end of that tunnel... ;-)

Their drivers don't do kms which is going to be a problem as ums is in 
the process of going away. They do seem to be making some changes for 
the better.

Intel has arguably the nest support for graphics (but just their in house 
stuff, not the designs they purchased). However their built in graphics 
devices aren't as powerful as the high end cards for AMD and nVidia. If 
you don't need that power, then Intel is a good choice.