AMD Catalyst Control Center doesn't work

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:17:13 -0500
Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > 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),
> 
> I've been a long-time advocate for AMD/ATI, largely due to their
> making available the specs.  Do you have references or citations to
> support the claim that specs are not available for some/high-end
> cards?

Ok, now that I did some research --- you're right, I stand corrected
--- they did publish the specs for the high-end models 6 months ago,
back in October 2013. Hopefully by now the radeon devs implemented
them. :-)

But what I remember is that this was not the case in recent years
(until last October, that is). Some years back when ATI announced the
release of the specs, there was a lot of hype about ATI supporting the
Linux community etc., but the actual specs were released only for
low-end, obsolete cards. This was very disappointing, and that
situation was perpetuated for a while. For example, the Radeon HD
family of cards was not supported by the open-source driver for quite a
while, and there were a lot of problems with the then-experimental
radeonhd driver. It was useless, and I had to install the fglrx driver
on several Fedora (Core) releases to get 3D support. And it was always a
major pain.

I admit being out of the loop recently, I wasn't aware that ATI came
completely straight last year. :-)

Best, :-)
Marko