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ATI Releases Drivers For X.Org

Posted by timothy on from the making-things-pretty dept.

Amadaeus writes "ATI released its much anticipated drivers for the X.Org 6.8 Window System today. ATI actually went one step further and updated its driver set for XFree86 as well. Those who had to hack and slash their way through the Fedora Core 3 install only to realize that VESA was the only way to get it working in init 5 will find this highly useful."

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  1. Re:Finally by Gregg+Alan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Another thing, considering they are touting Xorg 6.8 support, how could they possibly forget to update the fglrxconfig program to produce a working config for it!?! Sure it will work with XFree86, but how hard is it to check whether the user has xfree or xorg (or ask) and change the keyboard driver and output filename approriately? Jesus.

    And considering that the x.org version is a different download file, they could have easily modified that one to do the right thing. And is it really easier to provide rpms without providing tgzs? Bah!

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  2. He's an AC, but... by NeoChaosX · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not everybody wants to bother with compiling drivers, dude. For some, it's simpler just to have binaries they can install. Not everybody wants to sit through a driver compile just to get the video card working.

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    1. Re:He's an AC, but... by NeoChaosX · · Score: 2, Informative

      Just because I support binaries doesn't mean I support closed-source, moron. I'm just saying not every person who needs to use a PC has the time to learn how to compile or sit through a compile session. Binaries are useful for those who aren't good with computers and don't have the time to learn about computers as much as we do.

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  3. Rage3D by HRbnjR · · Score: 4, Informative

    Those that are going to try using this should read the Rage3D Linux Drivers Forum.

    Some of the material there is pretty much required reading to get this stuff working, and includes posts with patches from ATI developers to make the driver work with the latest kernels (2.6.10, etc).

  4. VESA? by turgid · · Score: 4, Informative

    VESA was the only way to get it working? What are you talking about? I downloaded and compiled Xorg 6.8.1 and there were three (ati, radeon, and something else) ATi drivers to choose from depending on your graphics card. OK the performance wasn't brilliant but it worked and the system seemed fairly stable (3 days uptime without an X crash or major bug).

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  5. wrong - "AllowGLXWithComposite" by sofar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Add the following to xorg.conf (Device section):

    Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

    Works fine for my GFORCE2, i get composite AND GLX at the same time, works like a charm.

    This doesn't work for Ati's tho.