John Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:34 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
http://ati.amd.com/online/rss/atilinuxdriver.rss?OCT-rss
New ATI drivers were posted today. I have not tried these yet, and since the 8.3 is working flawlessly, I'm not in any hurry, but those of you having problems with some ATI cards may want to check it out.
Great news,
The 8.3 drivers are fantastic. I'm still using the ones I built from
the installer package. I just check and the build service now has the 8.3 drivers built, but it seemed like it took a very long time for them to show up. The 8.3 driver was released on 3/8 if I recall correctly, and I remember checking the build service for weeks without anything new. Maybe the 8.4 driver will show up here fairly quickly.
Why not get them direct from ATI? Their installer has always worked for me.
ATI's Linux drivers have been nothing but trouble for me. I've always had better luck with NVidia's Linux drivers. Unfortunately my work computer (which I run opensuse on) has an ATI video card in it, and I have had to run the generic non-hw-accelerated driver to even get X11 to work. I've got that ATI X600 chip. It doesn't seem to fare well with the official ATI drivers. That, and the fact I'm running a x86_64 machine may complicate matters even more. I installed the ATI drivers that were released last week and I actually got a segfault and crashed X11. I couldn't even get back to a console and had to hard boot it. If they would work, that would be great... but I've tried everything I know (which probably isn't everything possible, but I'm not a complete novice either). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org