Woah, AMD Releases OpenGL 4.0 Linux Support!

[Kano]

Just that you can not use the driver with Xserver 1.7, they should have used a newer base.

[V!NCENT]

Correction thanks to the awesome time limite Phoronix!
-EyeFinity (which no one but a single rich nerd without a life will ever use )

[droidhacker]

A *very* quick glance suggests that this *does* support xserver1.7....

if [ "$xorg_server_ver_num" ]
            then
                if [ `echo "$xorg_server_ver_num" | grep -c '1\.7'` -gt 0 ]
                then                    
                    X_VERSION="Xorg"
                    x_ver_num="7.5"
                elif [ `echo "$xorg_server_ver_num" | grep -c '1\.6'` -gt 0 ]
                then                    
                    X_VERSION="Xorg"
                    x_ver_num="7.4"
                elif [ `echo "$xorg_server_ver_num" | grep -c '1\.5'` -gt 0 ]
                then                   
                    X_VERSION="Xorg"
                    x_ver_num="7.4"
                elif [ `echo "$xorg_server_ver_num" | grep -c '^1\.4'` -gt 0 ]
                then
                    X_VERSION="Xorg"
                    x_ver_num="7.3"
                fi
            fi


            if [ "${x_name}" = "Xorg" -a ${x_maj} -eq 7 -a ${x_min} -eq 5 ]; then
        		x_ver_internal=x740
            # Map Xorg 7.4
            elif [ "${x_name}" = "Xorg" -a ${x_maj} -eq 7 -a ${x_min} -eq 4 ]; then
   		        x_ver_internal=x740
            else
                # Workaround to set internal version number (for platform binary
                # directory) to handle modular X
                if [ ${x_maj} -lt 4 -o ${x_maj} -ge 7 ]; then
                        x_ver_internal=x690
                fi
            fi

[he_the_great]

Why can't they do this with the Ubuntu Beta drivers? It proves that they can release unsupported drivers... well maybe they will start supporting the latest Xorg before it is released.

[Kano]

@droidhacker

Do you see a x750 dir? I don't, but feel free to try it.

[droidhacker]

@droidhacker

Do you see a x750 dir? I don't, but feel free to try it.

No, but it very specifically sets it to use x740 when 7.5 is detected. Now why would they bother with that unless the x740 files were rigged to work with 7.5?

[RealNC]

No, but it very specifically sets it to use x740 when 7.5 is detected. Now why would they bother with that unless the x740 files were rigged to work with 7.5?

That was always the case in previous versions too.

[Ragas]

-EyeFinity (which no one but a single rich nerd without a life will ever use )

Don't say that! I once had 3 Displays connected to my computer .....

As a matter of fact two of my old CRT's died since then, but there will come a time when I once again own more than 2 functioning displays and then I will be Very Thankful to AMD for this feature.


@ Dirver: Well done. Nice seeing AMD catch up on the diver side.

[Tares]

Hard to believe go ATI go

[dopehouse]

Does anyone knows the code for the /etc/ati/signature file, to remove the watermark?