AMD 8.31.5 Display Drivers

Posted by Michael Larabel on November 15, 2006

AMD has issued the new fglrx display drivers -- coming only two weeks after 8.30.3. The changes are minimal though there is improved X-Video performance for Radeon X1000 products. The Phoronix review can be read here. Meanwhile join in on the discussion here and the release notes are at AMD.
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