Critical/highly severe bug in Gutsy, noone seems to notice

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Wouter Stomp wrote:

> On 8/22/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> After tribe-4 was released, we updated the -ati driver to the latest
>> 6.6.193 version.
>>
>> We're aware that this new version is far from perfect, but it fixes a
>> wide swath of issues and has better support for newer devices.
>
> That update broke a lot of other ATI cards, making gutsy currently
> unusable unless you install the fglrx driver:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/133192

And to make matters even more interesting, upstream has decided to 
obsolete 6.6.19x and merged randr-1.2 -branch in it, releasing 6.7.191 
:)

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-August/027504.html

We'll make the new version available somewhere for people to test. It does 
mean that the old-style dual-head ("zaphod") won't work anymore, but we 
have randr-1.2 which works better. And tv-out too..


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