Open-Source ATI Driver Nears New Release

Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 10 February 2009 at 09:02 AM EST. 7 Comments
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Alex Deucher has announced a new release candidate for the next xf86-video-ati driver release. The xf86-video-ati 6.11 release has a major rework when it comes to the display output code along with a memory corruption fix for the ATI RS780 memory controller. There are also quite a few bug-fixes in this first xf86-video-ati 6.11 RC1 build. The full change-log can be found on the X.Org mailing list.
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