Re: Colour me surprised ....
"If there's a problem with the silicon it goes well beyond OS unless a particular OS knows to look for that issue and develop around it."
Ah yes, the bane of FOSS driver devs. GFX cards especially seem to end up with multiple bugs in the silicon and have undocumented s/w workarounds in the drivers (not that they are documented much, if at all, anyway)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
