ATI 8.40.4 driver released

Larry Hartman larryhartman50 at bellsouth.net
Tue Aug 14 15:36:14 UTC 2007


Big change to this driver in terms of installation.  Here are the basic steps 
for Feisty:

1.  Download driver
2.  Change permissions to executable file
3.  Uninstall with package manager previous versions of fglrx-related packages
3.  Run downloaded file as Sudo
4.  GUI launches, click install button
5.  At license acceptance, click "I agree"--wonder if this means ATI is not 
going to release drivers as open source?
6.  When complete, restart X-server
7.  Check in terminal with fglrxinfo

ATI has gone a long way on this version to rip the steps out of the lengthy 
manual install process.....what they gave us is pretty easy.

The old manual methods of building packages for ubuntu/feisty still works if 
you wish to choose that route.

wiki.cchtml.com is down, so I am unable to update Feisty instructions.

Oh, and BTW, I am getting 1200fps (glxgears) on my ATI Xpress 200M--never been 
over 1000fps with any driver.


Larry




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