New Radeon Driver Supports Mac Mini

Posted by Michael Larabel on September 24, 2007

Alex Deucher has released the xf86-video-ati 6.7.194 RC driver. This open-source Radeon driver has initial support for Apples's Mac Mini, fixed Xv crasher, a number of LVDS fixes, and external TMDS should work again. In total there are fifteen changes for this release. Alex believes that the next xf86-video-ati gold release is coming soon. You can read his announcement with download links on the xorg mailing list.

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