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May 24, 2006, 02:10 PM
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ATI Linux driver 8.25.18 discussion
New Features
This section provides information on new features introduced in the latest release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver. This include: * New Product Support * Xorg 7.0 Support * Display Power Management Signaling Support New Product Support This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver introduces support for the following ATI products: * FireGL™ V7350 * FireGL™ V7300 * FireGL™ V7200 * FireGL™ V5200 * FireGL™ V3400 * FireGL™ V3350 * FireGL™ V2200 Xorg 7.0 Support Xorg 7.0 is now supported by the ATI Proprietary Linux installer. Display Power Management Signaling Support This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver now enables Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) support in the software display driver by default. The option to disable DPMS support is still available to users by referring to aticonfig --help. Resolved Issues The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver. These include:
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Proprietary Linux driver. These issues include:
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May 24, 2006, 03:38 PM
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About time....Now lets see if the x1900 will finally work.
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May 24, 2006, 10:27 PM
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Greg likes!
  Direct link to image http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6...apshot28oi.jpg Fedora Core 5 x86_64 version is running very well with the new drivers. I did have to comment out the (Load "extmod") in the "xorg.conf" file and I have not had time yet to find out why yet. I am running the 2.6.16.18 stock kernel from kernel.org!  So far this looks sweet. |
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May 25, 2006, 12:08 AM
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How do you get the ATI control panel thing?
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May 25, 2006, 04:08 AM
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A Legend in Underwear
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Now if they could fix using the fglrx driver AND the radeonfb driver as using the VESA fb driver sucks for 1600x1050x24 as it can't do it  OK, it means that they'll probably have to donate code to the kernel, but it would be a good move as AFAIK nVidia don't support nvfb either. All in all, with the above bugs fixed this is probably the best release since ATI gave us 64-bit goodness I'll get around to actually playing some games later |
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May 25, 2006, 10:16 AM
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May 25, 2006, 11:54 AM
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I just installed this from rpm.livna.org. I didn't expect much, but when I read this... Wow, this is getting strange...
 So many fixes in a single release? And so many good fixes (X.org 7, removal of internal GART...)? I'm very happy about it! What else to say, way to go, ATI!Now if they could only fix the "A system hang may occur when attempting to resume from hibernation mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22059" too... /me goes to install NWN to test new drivers and "new" NWN patch a bit... Last edited by RIV@NVX; May 25, 2006 at 12:03 PM. |
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May 26, 2006, 04:29 AM
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BTW, the xorg 7 "fix" is just their installer which most distros probably don't use. The fglrx driver has always worked with xorg 7 |
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May 26, 2006, 11:09 AM
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Jun 7, 2006, 12:14 AM
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I may not appreciate all the details and marvels of the latest driver, but cannot but be disapointed.
My reason: 3D accelleration works in my Xpress200M only after disabling all memory for sideport and using only system memory. As it works for XP, this seems a never-to-be-solved problem with ATI's driver... System: Compaq Presario R4000 AMD64, Suse9.3 kernel 2.6.11.4-21-12. x86-64 |
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Jun 13, 2006, 06:05 AM
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Jun 17, 2006, 09:10 AM
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reluctant to undertake any big change as going back to 32bit. Why would this depend on that, being there the (less than satisfactory) workaround of changing BIOS settings? After all, 64bit systems have been there already for more than 2 years, Xpress200M for more than 1yr and AMD is delivering only 64bit cores now... |
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Jun 19, 2006, 01:29 PM
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XWindows Fails to load after driver installation
Ok I will admit I am pretty new to this whole thing, but I'm on the edge of pulling out my hair. I read the following line in the fixed column and I don't know if this is the problem or not, but it's so far the closest thing I can figure.
"X Server no longer fails to load when using an ATI Radeon® X1x00, 512MB product with certain motherboards. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22056" Since there is no more topic 737-22056 (at least that you can search for at support.ati.com) I can't tell. But here is the issue. I'm running a Pent4 3ghz processor on a Foxxconn 915 series Mainboard, and a Asus EAX1600PRO PCIE 16 w/ 512 mb of vidram. System ram is at 2GB and I'm running the 64bit SuSE 10.1 distro. When I install the drivers (tried multiple methods from multiple walkthroughs incl ATI's directions) The result is always the same. On reboot xWindows will not load. It gives me a huge log file and I can't make ends meet out of it other than the ChipID IS correct (read about that problem w/ asus too). I am lost, if anyone can help or point me to a post (in my search of the forums this is the closest I've found), or website it would save me from premature baldness :-P |
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