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Oct 12, 2005, 04:48 PM
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ATI Proprietary Linux x86 Drivers for Linux 8.18.6 (October 13th, 2005) discussion
New ATI drivers for linux 
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
[color=#000066]New Features [/color]
This section provides information on new feature introduced in this release of the ATI proprietary Linux driver. New features include:
[color=#000066]Dynamic Clock Gating [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver provides dynamic clock gating. This feature allows the supported graphics cards to deactivate components when they are not being used.
[color=#000066]Enhanced Support for OpenGL Development [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver provides enhanced support for OpenGL development. The driver now installs the glATI.h header file allowing for OpenGL developers to access the advanced functionality found on ATI's hardware platform.
[color=#000066]Dual Link Monitor Support [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides support for dual link monitors for ATI graphics cards that have dual link DVI connectors.
[color=#000066]Xinerama Support [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides Xinerama extension support for big desktop configurations.
[color=#000066]New X Server Configuration Utility [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides a new X Server configuration utility known as aticonfig. This allows for configuration of ATI devices via a command line interface.
Last edited by Kombatant; Oct 22, 2005 at 10:56 AM.
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Oct 12, 2005, 08:07 PM
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Not a bad release noting that they added more features. Just keep those opengl fixes/tweaks coming!
Video Overlay still craps out! (run zapping in overlay mode and you'll see what I mean)
If only they could stop wasting time developing for old versions of xfree86..
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Oct 13, 2005, 01:54 AM
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Oct 13, 2005, 10:19 AM
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Did anyone at ATI even try to download this file in Linux?? Firefox tries to open the 60 MB file in a window. And it's impossible to get it via wget too.  |
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Oct 13, 2005, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by lcs
Did anyone at ATI even try to download this file in Linux?? Firefox tries to open the 60 MB file in a window. And it's impossible to get it via wget too. |
What do you mean impossible? I guess wget should be able to do it.
In case Firefox tries to display it, that means ATI is serving wrong mimetype. I think you can use the "Save target as" to avoid that bug. |
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Oct 13, 2005, 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by lcs
Did anyone at ATI even try to download this file in Linux?? Firefox tries to open the 60 MB file in a window. And it's impossible to get it via wget too. |
I know.. they don't test things out sometimes... |
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Oct 13, 2005, 01:21 PM
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Freedom is a feature.
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Originally Posted by jec0s
If only they could stop wasting time developing for old versions of xfree86..
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Yeah, it would be really cool if they dropped support for anything below XFree86 4.3.0. Almost nobody who cares about 3D acceleration uses that today! |
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Oct 13, 2005, 01:28 PM
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Freedom is a feature.
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Originally Posted by Ferret_Style
New ATI drivers for linux
[LOTS OF TEXT]
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Seems you somehow got the wrong release notes
Release notes I found say the following:
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[color=#000066]New Features [/color]
This section provides information on new feature introduced in this release of the ATI proprietary Linux driver. New features include:
[color=#000066]Dynamic Clock Gating [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver provides dynamic clock gating. This feature allows the supported graphics cards to deactivate components when they are not being used.
[color=#000066]Enhanced Support for OpenGL Development [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver provides enhanced support for OpenGL development. The driver now installs the glATI.h header file allowing for OpenGL developers to access the advanced functionality found on ATI's hardware platform.
[color=#000066]Dual Link Monitor Support [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides support for dual link monitors for ATI graphics cards that have dual link DVI connectors.
[color=#000066]Xinerama Support [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides Xinerama extension support for big desktop configurations.
[color=#000066]New X Server Configuration Utility [/color]
The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides a new X Server configuration utility known as aticonfig. This allows for configuration of ATI devices via a command line interface.
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Has anyone tried aticonfig?
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Oct 13, 2005, 11:44 PM
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Well, the RPM installed on fc4 x86_64, so that's a plus, and it seems to run ok on the Xpress 200. ctl-alt-backspace still hangs the x server, though. All in all, a step in the right direction...
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Oct 15, 2005, 03:00 PM
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I get really bad flickering on Eternal Lands with these drivers 
Downgrading to 8.16.20-r1 fixes the problem on amd64, which indicates it is a driver issue imo |
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Oct 20, 2005, 09:02 PM
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I get the same as with the previous version: blank screen and no access to any console. 
dmesg and Xorg.0.log show everything perfect, but it isn't. Desperating...
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Compaq Presario R4025CA, AMD64, Xpress200M, Suse9.3 |
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Oct 20, 2005, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by UberLord
I get really bad flickering on Eternal Lands with these drivers
Downgrading to 8.16.20-r1 fixes the problem on amd64, which indicates it is a driver issue imo |
Must be specific to amd64 cause I just installed et and it runs fine .. I won't go 64bit for a while cause things like this, and many other apps.. |
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Oct 28, 2005, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by RIV@NVX
Yeah, it would be really cool if they dropped support for anything below XFree86 4.3.0. Almost nobody who cares about 3D acceleration uses that today!
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Well I'm sure there are a lot of ATI channel partners that would disagree with that. You have to keep in mind that we are not the primary target users for ATI but rather their workstation, professional, etc. partners. And a lot of those places can't upgrade as easily as a home user, and so get stuck with old X versions for longer periods. |
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Oct 30, 2005, 06:09 PM
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Hmmm... I can install these drivers in ubuntu linux but I cant use them :P
what driver should I use ???
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Oct 30, 2005, 06:24 PM
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r u sure u installed them well? does it give a message after installing them? i did install them on ubuntu, then run fglrxconfig and at the end did sudo init 6 and all worked as it should-
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Oct 31, 2005, 03:19 AM
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Originally Posted by BulletFx
r u sure u installed them well? does it give a message after installing them? i did install them on ubuntu, then run fglrxconfig and at the end did sudo init 6 and all worked as it should-
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I think that I did, it didn't give any warings, execpt that libc was 32 bit, I'm using the 64 bit version  |
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