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@rich-ayotte I don't think it's fair to "blame AMD". They suck, but the
question is what does Canonical do about the non-working AMD drivers?
Canonical should detect the fact that the drivers don't work  and do one
of 2 things:

1) Postpone the release, or
2) When doing an upgrade - prompt a human being with a warning sign: "If you proceed with this upgrade your PC will not work since AMD binary drivers are known to be broken"

Whatever happened with the "Linux for human beings" slogan?  Either you
say "Blame AMD" or "Linux for Human Beings". You can't have it both
ways.  A Human being couldn't care less about which nerdy engineer made
their PC unusable. What they do know however, is that Canonical decided
to break their computer and NOT so by mistake since it was 100% known to
Canonical that that the PC would break on the upgrade and they did
nothing about it.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1493888

Title:
  FGLRX incompatible with kernel 4.2

Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fglrx-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  With a R9 280 and FGLRX on ubuntu 15.10 the graphics lock up. I am
  able to SSH into the machine. I booted the older kernel
  (4.1.0-3-generic) and it works with FGLRX. After purging FGLRX and
  using xserver-xorg-video-radeon I am able to get the graphics working,
  but even it has issues with my display port (The DVI ports are working
  correctly).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: fglrx (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-7.7-generic 4.2.0
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu9
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Sep  9 09:29:54 2015
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-01-07 (1705 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: fglrx-installer
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-08-18 (21 days ago)

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