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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