[Bug 100743] Support for Radeon HD 6970M

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100743

--- Comment #3 from Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jesse from comment #2)
> If that is true, why is neither the amdgpu nor radeon drivers that ship with
> Ubuntu 16.04 (the only open source drivers it has for AMD GPUs) being
> detected as supported? If I run `lshw -c video` the HD 6970M is listed as
> 'unclaimed', implying no compatible driver was detected. Either there is a
> bug with the driver compatibility detection or the card is not supported.
> 

I suspect the radeon driver is still blacklisted from when you had fglrx
installed.  Please make sure any remnants of fglrx are uninstalled and radeon
is not blacklisted.

> Also, if radeon driver supports every card, why bother having a supported
> GPU list in the man page? Why not just say, 'all radeon hardware is
> supported'?

All of the chip families are listed (R100, RV350, BARTS, TURKS, etc.).  Just
just listed a selection of the marketing names for reference because there are
so many.

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