ATI Linux Display Drivers Version 8.32.5
Several readers wrote in to let us know about ATI releasing version 8.32.5 (release notes) of their Linux display drivers. Release highlights:
- X.Org 7.2 Release Candidate 2 Support, 7.2RC3+ will not work out of the box.
- ATI Radeon X1650/X1950 Support.
- The ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 is now being properly identified when viewing the OpenGL renderer string. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24428.
- Switching between X Server and text console mode no longer results in a system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24421.
- Corruption is no longer noticed when setting the texture sampler’s filter to GL_NEAREST. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24429
- The Extended Display Identification Data is now displayed for Display Data Channel display devices in the X Server log. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24422.
- The ati directory is now removed from /usr/share when uninstalling the graphics driver using the fglrx-uninstall.sh uninstall script. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24423.
- Installing the graphics driver and configure the driver for dual-head mode no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when hot-unplugging the display device and restarting the X Server. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24424.
- Starting the X Server in dual-head mode no longer requires the DRM kernel module to be present. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24425.
- Catalyst Linux 8.32.5 provides improvements in the Tripos SYBYL performance. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24426.










December 23rd, 2006 at 4:32 am
The unofficial Howto seems to have been removed : http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Edgy_Installation_Guide
It was detailing the steps to build your own .deb packages with the ATI .run file :-(
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:04 am
Amazing. Xvideo is /still/ broken. What is ATI working on?
December 23rd, 2006 at 8:07 pm
[q]Amazing. Xvideo is /still/ broken. What is ATI working on?[/q]
Higher version numbers?
December 24th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Where’s my quad crossfire support?
8800gtx : the way it’s meant to be played
December 24th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
install NVidia!
And be happy. :)