Open-Source ATI Driver Updated

Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 4 August 2007 at 08:23 AM EDT. 1 Comment
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Aside from minor changes to the ATI Radeon driver man-page last month, there hasn't been too much to report on with this open-source X.Org driver (though there has been a wealth of happenings with the Avivo R500 driver). Today, however, there was some Radeon driver updates to the git tree. Luc Verhaegen had cleaned up PortInfo to CRTC mapping and sanitizing blanking and DPMS functions. Meanwhile, David Airlie cleaned up pieces of the DPMS/blank register programming, added "-Wall" for the GCC argument, removed unused variables, and updated the configuration file for what will be the ATI 6.6.193 driver release. All this work had occurred in the xf86-video-ati tree.
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