AMD 8.42.3 Driver Released -- The Baby Is Born!

[Raknor]

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run

[slacker]

w00t!
downloading now

[sishgupta]

non akamai'd link:
Direct link to ati

[Michael]

Today it's now time where the fglrx driver reaches yet another milestone. Not only does today's release address many of the outstanding bugs for the earlier GPU generations while also introducing a few new features, but it also delivers AIGLX support! Yes, you read that right. You can finally run your ATI graphics card with the fglrx driver and run Compiz, Beryl, or Compiz Fusion without using XGL! This is coming 13 months after NVIDIA had introduced its AIGLX support, but now just days after the release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon it's here for ATI hardware. Granted, if you were using an older ATI GPU with the open-source Radeon driver, you could have been benefiting from AIGLX already.

Review: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=11287

Digg: http://digg.com/linux_unix/AMD_8_42_...gs_Fixes_AIGLX

(This codename came from all of the discussion in this Phoronix Forums thread: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5422)

[givemesugarr]

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...x86.x86_64.run

are you sure that that is the right driver?! i cannot see it on ati's site or on the rss update feed...

[c0un7d0wn]

are you sure that that is the right driver?! i cannot see it on ati's site or on the rss update feed...

Just downloaded.. hacking up an ebuild right now..

[Uchikoma]

Finally it is out.
*downloads*

[Extreme Coder]

Downloading now!!!!!

[cantas]

The buildpkg feature does not work in gutsy.


cp: cannot stat `./usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri': No such file or directory
dh_install: command returned error code 256
make: *** [binary] Error 1

[slacker]

Just downloaded.. hacking up an ebuild right now..

do you mind sharing it once it's done?