Where is fglrx / catalyst 8.5?

[bridgman]

If you have examples of DX apps which work with wine on another card but not with our current driver can you let us know ?

[lupine]

My thoughts too. Looks like I'm sticking to 8.4 for a while. *sigh*. I was looking forward to this update, too - wine keeps failing with literally every directx app I care to try (it didn't with my old nvidia card), and I was hoping a driver update would fix it.

This is what I get for rampant fanboyism, I guess . I only bought ATI because they'd been bought by AMD, and they were doing the open-source thing. If I'd thought on it more, I'd have stuck to nvidia for a year or two more.

/Nick

[bridgman]

I'm pretty sure it's just a packaging change -- wouldn't expect anything other than the watermark to be affected.

[lupine]

Are there any code changes with the new version? I'm hesitant to retry it, as it seems unlikely...

Also, my last post appears to have not made it. To wit: http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139

[bridgman]

Not sure what that post meant; maybe the poster had an issue with the kernel module not being installed or not initializing properly and getting slow/failing 3D as a result.

re: the version numbers, this is Catalyst 8.5, ie the 5th release of 2008, which also happens to be internal release number 8.493.

[Zibi1981]

ati-driver-installer-8.5 -> Trash -> Empty!!!

its only for testing without 3D!!!

it is version 8.493 only...

Does really this version lack 3D support?

[lupine]

This is a really, really bad update for me. http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139 explains why.

Anyone else have this sort of issue?

[bridgman]

An updated driver package has been posted; watermark should be gone now.

Please navigate through http://www.amd.com in case the URL changed.

EDIT... or just click here : http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/l...ux-radeon.html

[sundown]

Release notes seem to be lengthy.

"Support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode is now available."

Wasn't this a very old bug they seem to have fixed now?

[yotambien]

Or just put that long ugly number in /etc/ati/signature after installing it.