[07:53] <nhaines> Well, time to find out if Ubuntu dropping the AMD Catalyst drivers means I can't boot graphically anymore.  Will be fun times!
[07:53] <nhaines> It's exciting because that's how I wanted to spend my evening.
[07:57] <daxcat> radeon works well these days
[07:57] <daxcat> which graphics card do you have?
[07:58] <DonkeyHotei> there's a new kernel driver, amdgpu
[07:59] <daxcat> yep. Volcanic Islands cards use that, and I think Sea Islands can too but not 100% sure. Everything else is radeon.
[08:37] <nhaines> daxcat: sort of a Radeon HD 6520G.
[08:41] <DonkeyHotei> i don't think catalyst has supported that in a long time
[08:50] <nhaines> Well, that'd be wrong.
[08:50] <nhaines> In any case, there's just vesa support now.
[08:54] <DonkeyHotei> there should be radeon
[08:56] <nhaines> It isn't loading.  But I think Ubuntu didn't uninstall fglrx cleanly, so making the appropriate changes.
[08:59] <nhaines> Seems to work now.
[09:03] <nhaines> Video playback is smoother on the occasional trouble videos, too.  Have to test gaming, but so far this is auspicious.
[09:13] <nhaines> We'll maybe call it suboptimal.
[09:38] <daxcat> radeon does video and desktop stuff better. fglrx does gaming better and everything else worse
[09:38] <daxcat> since the only good game is nethack, radeon ftw
[09:58] <nhaines> I do most of my gaming in Windows, so it will be a slight inconvenience, but it should suffice.