Xorg 1.6 support in fglrx

[gzunk]

Does any version of fglrx support Xorg 1.6? It's that the new Ubuntu is coming out with Xorg 1.6 and I'd like to know if I should event attempt the upgrade...

[Milyardo]

Does any version of fglrx support Xorg 1.6? It's that the new Ubuntu is coming out with Xorg 1.6 and I'd like to know if I should event attempt the upgrade...

Do you mean xserver 1.6 or Xorg 7.5?

[bridgman]

AFAIK the latest Ubuntu already has a working version of fglrx included in the Restricted Drivers area.

[gzunk]

Thanks, it looks as if Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) will have Xorg Server 1.6 and a working fglrx driver for R7xx cards, but I think I'll wait until someone else does it first before jumping in

[monraaf]

Thanks, it looks as if Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) will have Xorg Server 1.6 and a working fglrx driver for R7xx cards, but I think I'll wait until someone else does it first before jumping in

I'm currently running Jaunty and the fglrx version for it works just as good/bad as 9.2 does on Intrepid.

Though since I'm only a casual gamer, I'm using the open source radeon driver most of the time.

[d2kx]

Remember that the Catalyst 9.4 driver release happens today (read it somewhere on game.amd.com). If the 9.4 Beta driver from Ubuntu supports it, the final one should, too.

[energyman]

well, 9.4 is out for over a week now - for windows ...

[NeoBrain]

well, 9.4 is out for over a week now - for windows ...

yeah, IIRC it was announced on some ATI developer/representant blog that the Linux driver was postponed to April 17th in order to polish some features.

EDIT: right here http://blogs.amd.com/play/2009/04/08...-want-to-know/
EDIT 2: Okay, they just wrote "on or about"... that can actually mean everything :P

[energyman]

I found the 'should be out on 17th' on game.amd too.
We will see, they have a couple of hours left. But they should fix their f* website. The german ati.amd.com side still links to the 9.2 driver....

[energyman]

ok, I tried 9.4 now and I am impressed. Really, really impressed.

ut2004 no difference
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