ATI Catalyst 8.10 Driver

[tramal]

Grab here:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/64bit/ati-driver-installer-8-10-x86.x86_64.run


The release notes are still empty as of now:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_810_linux.html


Cheers,

tramal

[Kano]

That driver is pure crap for serveral reasons

+ xorg 7.1 dri permissions are fixed (8-9 had wrong permissions)

- wine apps crash (for example trackmania)
- 2.6.27 kernel needs same patch as 8-9
- no x740 dirs like the driver for ubuntu 8.10
- as usual no pointsprites with gl2benchmark
- beryl not working with etch

so basically we are at the state of 8-8 again with a little bit different 2.6.27 patch.

[Fran]

- no support for xorg-server-1.5 yet.

[RealNC]

I'm starting to HATE Ubuntu for the same reasons I hate Windows.

Seriously.

[doubledr]

That driver is pure crap for serveral reasons

+ xorg 7.1 dri permissions are fixed (8-9 had wrong permissions)

- wine apps crash (for example trackmania)
- 2.6.27 kernel needs same patch as 8-9
- no x740 dirs like the driver for ubuntu 8.10
- as usual no pointsprites with gl2benchmark
- beryl not working with etch

so basically we are at the state of 8-8 again with a little bit different 2.6.27 patch.

I will be very disappointed if this is true.

[porksome]

Tried the 8.10 driver on the ATI website.

ATIConfig results in a Segmentation Fault when I run it. Have tried manually adding the driver to xorg.conf and doing the "aticonfig -tls=1" trick but when I reboot I end up going back to the command line as Xserver says it cannot find any screens. Using the open-source drivers again now until some more people have tried 8.10 incase I had installed it wrong.

One thing I did notice is that an extra "modaliases" .deb package is generated when I build the packages.

Running ubuntu hardy, kde 4.1 and Mobility Radeon M10 (9600)

[Thetargos]

Oops there go my hopes for Xorg 7.4 support

I will have to roll back to F8, or switch distributions entirely... not a good thing either way. F9 (Xorg 7.4) is unstable as the result of XServer 1.5 - radeon(hd) drivers interaction crashing X (when using EXA the crash is very well defined to pan images larger than the viewing area, without it, the crashes are more "random"), though I seem to be of the few (very few it would seem) experimenting this issue with both drivers (radon and radeonhd), so no fgrlx for me, means I most likely will roll back. :-/

[grantek]

So is Ubuntu using a different binary driver or something? You'd think if it was a patch to the distributed-as-source bits, that Ubuntu could/would/should divulge what they did while playing with the prerelease driver.

[Thetargos]

So is Ubuntu using a different binary driver or something? You'd think if it was a patch to the distributed-as-source bits, that Ubuntu could/would/should divulge what they did while playing with the prerelease driver.

Ubuntu? Get serious! They do not contribute much back upstream (until fairly recently, that is)

[Kano]

For Xserver 1.5 packages on other systems then Ubuntu you can try this hack:

Extract the ati-installer 8-10 and combine it with

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo...43.orig.tar.gz

this way:

a) remove all old arch common x* dirs completely
b) create a new common dir, put etc lib opt usr from 8.543 in there the rest just copy to extracted 8-10 dir
c) rename x740 to x710 and x740_64a to x710_64a
d) now you can execute

./ati-installer.sh 8.542 --install

or whatever option you usually use.

Have fun