Originally posted by Yfrwlf
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So, their new answer (last answer was to change the driver name to catalyst and have monthly releases when their drivers were getting a rep in even windows for being cataclysmic) was to dump out the specs and make an OSS driver framework for the rest of us to use. (I guess that they expect their institutional customers to pony up another several thousand per card every 2-3y of course that's probably the warranty term -- referring to droppage of pre-R500 GPU support in catalyst).
Just glad that I forgot about checking for the fglrx release, so that I didn't have to mess with the hotfix, hopefully. (Did they "fix" the currently available driver download? I'll probably hold off until next weekend when I'll have more time to deal with problems. Losing video on a nb could really suck when you have no other useful machines to ssh(well I have a few that I could resurrect enough to ssh in with, but it would waste some additional time and I don't find it to be nearly as... hmmm... entertaining(?) as I did 10y or so ago when I was regularly re-building my own kernels, and dealing with circular RPM dependency hell amongst other things, etc.) in with and no HDMI monitors when the only video output on the nb is HDMI...)
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