[FR] ATI 8.40.4 release

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 15 August 2007 at 12:58, mtlagm at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Mike Chambers wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 18:51 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > 
> > > Oh, a new release! :-)
> > > 
> > > Here you go :
> > > http://ftp.es6.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/testing/7/
> > > 
> > > The older releases are right next to it, in case bad things happen with
> > > this latest version, which is almost certain given it's the ATI
> > > proprietary driver ;-p
> > 
> > Got it installed and seems to be working except for one thing.  There is
> > the "Testing use only" watermark that appears that also did during the
> > initial first release of the last driver they put out.  They had
> > corrected the problem with a new release, but it is back again I think.
> 
> Confirm the watermark.
> 
> Besides, as the previous version, suspend/hibernate hangs after
> "Suspending Consoles" message.
> 
> Hopefully the new linux codebase will reach decency, eventually.

Users of Radeon X1x00 series could help provide some data to avivo
developers, see: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=803

Regards,
R.

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