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SergeantCircles
05-31-2007, 12:18 AM
Assuming the new drivers were supposed to come out today, will the delay be only a few days, or will we have to wait until sometime next month? It seems that if big changes are on the horizon (new opengl arch, aiglx), it might be more efficient to just work on that instead of worrying about releases every month...
yoshi314
05-31-2007, 02:43 AM
the day is not over yet.

8.35 or 8.36 went out at 7pm of my local time.

as far as aiglx etc goes - i'd say it might come by around october or so.
danielpugh
05-31-2007, 04:53 AM
no driver at all this month :((unless the website is broken). sure it probably wasn't going to work, but now ...
Michael
05-31-2007, 07:02 AM
Their website is not broken.

AMD's position remains on delivering drivers on a monthly basis :)

Today is the end of the month and we have yet to see a driver this month. Does that say anything about what Phoronix will be posting today?
yoshi314
05-31-2007, 07:06 AM
AMD's position remains on delivering drivers on a monthly basistheir recent trend is pushing out drivers on the very last day of the month, just because there has to be a month with a release. well that's my impression anyway.
Michael
05-31-2007, 07:08 AM
recently they seem to be pushing out drivers on the very last day of the month, just because there has to be a month with a release :]

That's not the truth... You'll see more in the AMD article coming out at Phoronix tomorrow...

They always aim for the middle of the month, sometimes the Windows driver though gets delayed (or Linux one in some cases). Since both drivers launch on the same day, both releases get pushed back.
Michael
05-31-2007, 12:13 PM
They always aim for the middle of the month, sometimes the Windows driver though gets delayed (or Linux one in some cases). Since both drivers launch on the same day, both releases get pushed back.

Well, it looks like the release may not happen today... Linux users need to sit and wait for the Windows users. The Linux 8.37 is completed, but I guess the Windows team is running behind...
d2kx
05-31-2007, 01:47 PM
OMG AMD! I just downloaded Fedora 7 to give it a try, but I can't with Xorg Server 1.3. Oh, did I say my favourite distribution has Xorg Server 1.3, too? :(

They better give us the release tomorrow... can't think of what problems they might have with 8.37, because there were already many 8.38 Windows Betas, one 8.381...
slacker
05-31-2007, 01:59 PM
will 8.37 support Xorg 1.3? Please tell me so!!
Anyway Micheal, is it hours, days, weeks :p?
yoshi314
05-31-2007, 01:59 PM
can't think of what problems they might have with 8.37maybe someone did an accidental rm -rf / and the driver got lost :d
Michael
05-31-2007, 02:01 PM
maybe someone did an accidental rm -rf / and the driver got lost :d

There is absolutely no problems with the fglrx 8.37 driver pushing back its release... It's all due to the Windows driver and both releases needing to go out on the same day.
d2kx
05-31-2007, 02:17 PM
8.37 should be done in April... I think Microsoft didn't give them a WHQL certificate and are testing the new driver 8.37... that's why they want to releae the driver in the middle of the month, to be ready if they don't get a WHQL certificate.

Oh well, Michaels article will tell.
d2kx
05-31-2007, 02:53 PM
Blame Microsoft. 8.37 will be avaible in the next hours / tomorrow.
Raven3x7
05-31-2007, 03:01 PM
Im quite sure this delay is because of R600 and how difficult it seems to be to optimize drivers for it. I really need this driver though as the xv bug, which hopefully has been fixed, is getting quite annoying.
d2kx
05-31-2007, 03:14 PM
They are working on 8.38 for some time now, so this is not the reason. The delay was caused by Microsoft, because they had problems with their WHQL Lab.
yoshi314
05-31-2007, 03:22 PM
as usual - blame microsoft :]

oh well, maybe it'll be out in the morning.
Michael
05-31-2007, 03:26 PM
It's Out: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.37.6.html
yoshi314
05-31-2007, 03:33 PM
argh, the video tearing is still not fixed :(
Michael
05-31-2007, 03:34 PM
An X-Video cropping issue with TV-out is fixed though.

Here's the Phoronix review right on time :) http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=10069
d2kx
05-31-2007, 03:39 PM
Why don't the release notes say anything about Xorg Server 1.3 Support?
Michael
05-31-2007, 03:41 PM
Why don't the release notes say anything about Xorg Server 1.3 Support?

The fix just involved changing a conditional statement, which is probably why it's not mentioned.
xunilos
05-31-2007, 03:46 PM
It's Out: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.37.6.html

There's no link to download the driver package on that page, and the "Download a driver" link on AMD's page still shows the 8.36 driver. :(
Michael
05-31-2007, 03:47 PM
There's no link to download the driver package on that page, and the "Download a driver" link on AMD's page still shows the 8.36 driver. :(

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.37.6-x86.x86_64.run