I'm going to test Ubuntu GNOME w/Vivid stack tomorrow but tonight I ran a Lubuntu w/Utopic HWE upgrade and I think all looks fine:
sudo /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-hwe-eol shows: WARNING: Security updates for your current Hardware Enablement Stack ended on 2016-08-04: * http://wiki.ubuntu.com/1404_HWE_EOL There is a graphics stack installed on this system. An upgrade to a configuration supported for the full lifetime of the LTS will become available on 2016-07-21 and can be installed by running 'update-manager' in the Dash. The same appears if I run hwe-support-status --verbose. Then: lance@lance-desktop:~$ hwe-support-status --show-all-unsupported xserver-xorg-video-cirrus-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-input-evdev-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-radeon-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-tdfx-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-savage-lts-utopic linux-generic-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-input-mouse-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-utopic libegl1-mesa-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-input-wacom-lts-utopic libxatracker2-lts-utopic libopenvg1-mesa-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-utopic libglapi-mesa-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-mach64-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion-lts-utopic linux-image-extra-3.16.0-30-generic xserver-xorg-video-r128-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-vmware-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-vesa-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-neomagic-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-modesetting-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-trident-lts-utopic linux-image-extra-3.16.0-77-generic xserver-xorg-core-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-sisusb-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-utopic linux-image-3.16.0-30-generic libgbm1-lts-utopic linux-image-generic-lts-utopic libegl1-mesa-drivers-lts-utopic linux-headers-generic-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-video-mga-lts-utopic libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-utopic linux-image-3.16.0-77-generic And: hwe-support-status --show-replacements linux-image-generic-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-lts-xenial libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-xenial linux-generic-lts-xenial libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-xenial At that point I went ahead and re-enabled proposed so I could test the HWE upgrade via GUI and I think all went well. Afterwards: lance@lance-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-r128-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-video-r128-lts-xenial: Installed: 6.10.0-1build2~trusty1 Candidate: 6.10.0-1build2~trusty1 Version table: *** 6.10.0-1build2~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status lance@lance-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-mach64-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-video-mach64-lts-xenial: Installed: 6.9.5-1build2~trusty1 Candidate: 6.9.5-1build2~trusty1 Version table: *** 6.9.5-1build2~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status lance@lance-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-ati* lance@lance-desktop:~$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-video-ati* xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-utopic-dbg: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2~trusty1 Version table: 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-dbg: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1 Version table: 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-saucy-dbg: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3:6 Version table: 3:6 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 3:5 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-wily: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1~trusty1 Version table: 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-trusty: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3:6 Version table: 3:6 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-vivid: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.5.0-1ubuntu2~trusty1 Version table: 1:7.5.0-1ubuntu2~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-vivid-dbg: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.5.0-1ubuntu2~trusty1 Version table: 1:7.5.0-1ubuntu2~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-quantal: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3:6 Version table: 3:6 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 3:5 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-raring-dbg: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3:6 Version table: 3:6 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 3:5 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-wily-dbg: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1~trusty1 Version table: 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-trusty-dbg: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3:6 Version table: 3:6 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-utopic: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2~trusty1 Version table: 1:7.4.0-2ubuntu2~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-xenial-dbg: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.7.0-1~trusty2 Version table: 1:7.7.0-1~trusty2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main i386 Packages 1:7.7.0-1~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-raring: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3:6 Version table: 3:6 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 3:5 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-saucy: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3:6 Version table: 3:6 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 3:5 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-quantal-dbg: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3:6 Version table: 3:6 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 3:5 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1 Version table: 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3.1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages 1:7.3.0-1ubuntu3 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-xenial: Installed: 1:7.7.0-1~trusty2 Candidate: 1:7.7.0-1~trusty2 Version table: *** 1:7.7.0-1~trusty2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-proposed/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:7.7.0-1~trusty1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main 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