Does the beta driver work with XOrg7.5/XOrgServer1.7?
why should 9-12 support 1.7?
does Ubuntu use it?
nope
Opensuse?
nope
fedora?
nope
so.. without any of the supported distros using it, why should 9.12 support 1.7? To satisfy gentoo ~ARCH users?
I hope it does, so I can shrink my package.mask/ directoy a bit...
Qaridarium, you are claiming that the upcoming driver or the one after that will be the best thing since sliced bread for a long time now. You talk a lot of upcoming greatness, you rile people up and when amd does not deliver what you promised, THEY get the flak.
Sadly, AMD are the one who get it, instead of you.
So lets just say, I take everything you say with a huge spoon of salt and recommend the same to everybody else.
Instead I point out AMDs three month cycle, the fact they develop for released software and look what the supported Distris use.
All three things point to 10.01 or 10.02 and not earlier.
There might be other cool stuff coming up earlier, but 1.7 support? I really doubt it.
uuuhh??? why so hard?
i think its not so healthy for you to be in the the beta/NDA program.
"THEY get the flak"
i hope soooooooooooooo realy..... I'm now on ati/amd grafic-cart for 3 years and i realy they get the flak if they not deliver WINE support and Viedeo acceleration...
"you rile people up"
realy? no! AMD rile people up by selling Grafic-carts with there drivers..
but are these the official supported repos?
maybe. Or maybe not. I will not talk about upcoming releases and their features, that for sure
I am just saying that instead of claiming this and that, people should try to think for a moment. 1.7.1 is just out, 3 month cycle, add some uncertainty - 10.2 or 10.3 become reasonable. The support may come earlier, which would be nice or later which would not be as nice. It will come at some point, but the stuff everybody could read here on phoronix about dev cycles, released software as basis, what are the supported distros using, etc will tell you that. Probably 3 to 4 month away. Which isn't that bad. When Ubuntu 10.4 or Opensuse 12.1 or Fedora wtf is out fglrx will certaily support the xserver they are using.
Until then you don't miss anything not using 1.7. And other stuff that will be included in the mean time (like less bugs) are much more important, don't you think?