If you have a computer with an AMD hybrid configuration with Intel HD integrated graphics, and you’re running the newest GNU/Linux distributions, chances are the AMD Radeon GPU is not properly supported.
It just happens that we have an Acer laptop that features such hybrid configuration, and we’re using the latest Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating system on it, which should be officially launched on October 13, 2016. We did an upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), but things have not been improved at all.
The problem is with AMD, which no longer offers a graphics driver for its older Radeon GPUs, such as the AMD Radeon HD 8750M (with 2 GB RAM) we’re running on the said laptop. It’s a four-year-old GPU, but according to this notebookcheck.net benchmark it’s decent to run some nice games from two-three years ago, better than the integrated Intel GPU.
So not only that you won’t hav… (read more)
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