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Old Oct 12, 2005, 04:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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


New Features

This section provides information on new feature introduced in this release of the ATI proprietary Linux driver. New features include:

Dynamic Clock Gating

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.

Enhanced Support for OpenGL Development

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.

Dual Link Monitor Support

The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides support for dual link monitors for ATI graphics cards that have dual link DVI connectors.

Xinerama Support

The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides Xinerama extension support for big desktop configurations.

New X Server Configuration Utility

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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Old Oct 12, 2005, 08:07 PM   #2 (permalink)
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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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Old Oct 13, 2005, 01:54 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Old Oct 13, 2005, 10:19 AM   #4 (permalink)
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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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Old Oct 13, 2005, 01:18 PM   #5 (permalink)
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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.
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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Old Oct 13, 2005, 01:18 PM   #6 (permalink)
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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.
I know.. they don't test things out sometimes...
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Old Oct 13, 2005, 01:21 PM   #7 (permalink)
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If only they could stop wasting time developing for old versions of xfree86..
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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Old Oct 13, 2005, 01:28 PM   #8 (permalink)
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New ATI drivers for linux

[LOTS OF TEXT]
Seems you somehow got the wrong release notes


Release notes I found say the following:
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New Features

This section provides information on new feature introduced in this release of the ATI proprietary Linux driver. New features include:

Dynamic Clock Gating

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.

Enhanced Support for OpenGL Development

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.

Dual Link Monitor Support

The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides support for dual link monitors for ATI graphics cards that have dual link DVI connectors.

Xinerama Support

The Linux 8.18.6 software driver now provides Xinerama extension support for big desktop configurations.

New X Server Configuration Utility

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.


Has anyone tried aticonfig?
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Old Oct 13, 2005, 11:44 PM   #9 (permalink)
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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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Old Oct 15, 2005, 03:00 PM   #10 (permalink)
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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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Old Oct 20, 2005, 09:02 PM   #11 (permalink)
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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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Old Oct 20, 2005, 10:45 PM   #12 (permalink)
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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
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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Old Oct 28, 2005, 11:04 PM   #13 (permalink)
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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!
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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Old Oct 30, 2005, 06:09 PM   #14 (permalink)
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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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Old Oct 30, 2005, 06:24 PM   #15 (permalink)
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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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