Quote from: philips on May 14, 2013, 11:55:14 PM

Well then, I also apologize for whatever you or anyone else might find offensive in my previous words.

Thing is, there is this myth floating sometimes around that Linux can magically solve all the issues.
Some people go there and find this unfriendly new OS and a whole lot of new issues, when sometimes the solution was in fact in their back yard (Windows).
Eventually they go back and tell everyone (for all the wrong reasons) that Linux is crap and so on.
Which is not fair and annoying.

Except the complaint above is somewhat legitimate since tuning in Linux is widely known not to be quite the same quality as windows and I don't think anyone in there right mind would argue that windows offers much better support for gaming at this time(although that's slowly changing). I have plenty of experience running linux and had it installed(temp install) with the drivers and cgminer running in 30 minutes but found linux amd drivers didn't even support the 7870 XT with 7950's so it only made things worse. I did have luck installing without it though.

So I checked again with all the drivers that will work with the 7870 Tahiti and no joy. It installs but there are no 13.1+ drivers that support 5 gpu's it seems and like I said above the 7870 XT (Tahiti ver) came out after 12.6 so it isn't supported either. I have searched to see if the driver could be changed or the bios to reflect a 7950 but the memory seems to be the major issue since it's 2GB vs 3GB on 7950.