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ATI 8.42.3 Linux Driver Released
Posted by Unixlord on October 24th, 2007, 02:17 PM

A month after AMD released a Radeon HD 2000 'R600' Linux driver based on their new Linux driver codebase, they have now released another driver that provides AIGLX support used for Compiz and Compiz Fusion. In addition to this long-awaited AIGLX support, this driver also addresses issues with previous Radeon product families, performance improvements, AGP fixes, and added features to their graphical control panel. Phoronix has a review of the 8.42 Linux driver with all of the details about this much-anticipated release.

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Last edited by Regeneration; October 25th, 2007 at 02:25 PM..

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Posted by Mac Daddy on October 25th, 2007, 01:40 AM
Nice post Unix any feedback on it ??

Moving this to News Cheers Bro
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Posted by Unixlord on October 25th, 2007, 02:31 PM
The Catalyst control center is vastly improved. Radeon X1950pro (PCI-E and AGP) users are generally satisfied.
Do not attempt to use this driver with compiz. There is a serious bug with compiz in conjunction this driver. Either use beryl, or the newer compiz-fusion. The problem is with compiz but the next release will include a workaround to fix this issue.
If you have the recently released ubuntu 7.10 you'll need to wait for 8.43 (hopefully not long) to add support for the newer kernel.
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Posted by 23ki45 on October 26th, 2007, 12:39 AM
Hi, I have Ubunty Gutsy. I have installed 8.42 drivers,and so far had no problems with compiz-fusion. I registered to as why should I have waited for 8.43 drivers. Are there any incompatibilities with the current kernel ?? Can you please tell me which are they?? I really don't feel like uninstalling them, had some trouble configuring them, but they work quite good and fast. Should I uninstall ??
Thanks in advance.
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Posted by Mac Daddy on October 26th, 2007, 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Unixlord View Post
The Catalyst control center is vastly improved. Radeon X1950pro (PCI-E and AGP) users are generally satisfied.
Do not attempt to use this driver with compiz. There is a serious bug with compiz in conjunction this driver. Either use beryl, or the newer compiz-fusion. The problem is with compiz but the next release will include a workaround to fix this issue.
If you have the recently released ubuntu 7.10 you'll need to wait for 8.43 (hopefully not long) to add support for the newer kernel.
OK fixing to use the Ubuntu 7.10 for my server when I get it back up and running and was going to update it with my XP dual boot on this rig so will await the update then as you mentioned .. Cheers
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