Originally posted by Domi09
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AMD Catalyst 9.8 Delivers New Kernel Support
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OK so I tried again to get this working and succeeded after turning on a bunch of unwanted IA32 crap in the kernel (which the gentoo ebuild helpfully doesn't mention at all) and downgrading from git Xorg.
So now I have 3D until the memory leaks force me to quit the program or suffer a crash. It feels like IE6-quality software, that's for sure.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostStill "not found" in the link to the release notes. IMO just shows how much attention they pay to the Linux release. It's not the first time they don't release properly.
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Originally posted by ObiWan View PostHere the typical AMD ReleaseNotes PDF:
http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_98_linux.pdf
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Fedora users shouldn't complain too much
Fedora uses a patched and ahead-of-stream graphics stack. Thus, if you are using Fedora please don't slag off the ATI team, and instead suggest to the Fedora team that be a little less cutting edge. If the Slack, Gentoo, and Arch users aren't encountering problems, it's fair to say that this is a successful release.
I say this as a (very) patient Fedora user
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Originally posted by yesterday View PostFedora users shouldn't complain too much
Fedora uses a patched and ahead-of-stream graphics stack. Thus, if you are using Fedora please don't slag off the ATI team, and instead suggest to the Fedora team that be a little less cutting edge. If the Slack, Gentoo, and Arch users aren't encountering problems, it's fair to say that this is a successful release.
I say this as a (very) patient Fedora user
I don't agree with Fedora needing to be less cutting edge. I think it's fair to say that if the OSS driver eventually gets decent support across chipsets, it'll be the Fedora users the ones who'll be testing it first.
What it is absolutely true is that Catalyst and Fedora don't mix. Fedora is constantly pushing the envelope and Catalyst is targeted to a different audience; being very popular amongst retired people living in Florida
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One thing I find funny in the release notes system requirements is "glibc 2.2 or 2.3". 2.2 was released in 2000, 2.3 in 2002.
We're at 2.10 today (which is 2009.)
Edit: here's another "diamond":
"Error message may appear while playing H264/VC1/mpeg2 media files with
Hardware Acceleration"
Uh, wut?Last edited by RealNC; 18 August 2009, 08:28 PM.
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