Rilasciati driver ATI per Linux

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Non so a quanti possa interessare, però il giorno in cui sono stati rilasciati i driver Catalyst 5.8, ATI ha rilasciato anche una nuova versione per Linux:

Le novità:

Workstation Performance Improvement
This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver provides a noticeable performance increase for all supported ATI Workstation products


Improved Display Detection Support
This release improves automatic detection of display devices when connected to an ATI graphics adapter. This allows for the display device to be configured using its Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) or to manually configured. For more information, refer to /usr/share/doc/fglrx/configure.html once the driver is installed.

Linux 2.6.12 Kernel Support
This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver introduces driver compatibly with Linux 2.6.12 kernel.

GCC 4.0 Support
The latest ATI Proprietary Linux driver now provides support for building the driver kernel module on systems with GCC 4.0

Driver Package Update
The Debian and Ubuntu operating systems are now supported by the ATI Installer Package Generator. Updates have occured to the SuSE package generation.


Release note - http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.16.20.html

Saluti.