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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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