Hitting on Halloween/the last day of the month is the ATI/AMD 8.30.3 Display Drivers!
The Fedora Core 6 packaging scripts have also been included. So try them out and report back if there are any problems (mainly interested in the fglrxcontrolpanel problem).
As always, we share all of the details down to the performance numbers and changes not mentioned in the official log.
These drivers don't give me a black screen now.. They lockup when the desktop starts. Have to drop back to the 8.24 drivers for the 200M chip set.
Excellent, my lack of x-video is now history.
One thing I don't get about ATI is that they gradually drop support for older drivers. So if you have a card that's a few years old and you want to run xorg 7.2, the driver won't support it. So then what?
What support drop are you referring to? The R100/R200 cards have been removed since they are well, very old. The open-source Radeon drivers are excellent (pardoning the lower gaming performance). The R200 support that was recently dropped still remains in a different development branch, so ATI is capable of still releasing "legacy" drivers if they so desire. The firegl_public code between 8.28.8 and the latest drivers should remain compatible for a while, so support for new kernels, etc... can be attained that way. The R200 support was dropped to better spend the resources for developing features in the drivers that will only work on post-R200 hardware.
Appears to have the same install issues as the previous version on FC6.
Guess I'll wait for the livna package again.
Last edited by shinytoaster; 11-01-2006, 09:14 PM.
See http://phoronix.net/forums/showthread.php?t=318 there for fireglcontrolpanel fix.
Don't want to jump through hoops to install a driver, I'll just wait for the livna package, which worked for me last time.
I didn't see it mentioned, but does the 8.30 release have support for AIGLX?
No, 8.30.3 doesn't support AIGLX.
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