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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. New Driver Features by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually this is quite an impressive release, coming from ATi. It has Xorg 6.8 support, GLSL, and they've also released 64 bit Linux drivers. So contrary to popular belief, the new dev team seems to be actually working, as opposed to the previous assumption that all they did was sit around and play Doom3-linux on nVidia tech...

  2. Re:COMPOSITE and DAMAGE by black+hole+sun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You lose DRI when you enable composite even with NVIDIA. As for XDAMAGE...well, I'd rather ATI be concentrating on the bug fixes and performance increases they so desperatley rather than waste time on some silly xorg feature.

  3. they are BINARY only drivers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Who cares about useless binary drivers.