AMD Catalyst 8.7 Linux Driver Released

[Kano]

Depends of the dir you are in and which -p level you use.

[Vighy]

There is no direct 2.6.26 support, but you find the patch here:

http://phorogit.com/index.php?p=fglr...da869c529cafe4

ehm

sed -i -e "s/fglrx-installer-8.512/common/g" <that_patch>

would work better

[Vighy]

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[Death Knight]

Thanks a lot Kano

[Kano]

There is no direct 2.6.26 support, but you find the patch here:

http://phorogit.com/index.php?p=fglrx-packaging.git&dl=plain&h=a94205d6bb86dbf154c3e519b6da869c529cafe4

[Forge]

Are we even claiming 2.6.26 support with the 8.7 release ?

I dunno, but you better not be claiming Wine support.

[SavageX]

Wow, that sounds encouraging coming from you, having in mind that what I only do with this driver is to play Nexuiz

Well, one downside: I can't get Source-engine based games to work in wine anymore. With 8.6 I could just launch with "-dxlevel 81" and have it mostly running.

Given that I only have the Half-Life 2 demo/DM/Lost-Coast thingies this isn't a big loss for me, though

[sundown]

Good release for me so far (Radeon 3850, x86_64 Ubuntu 8.04) - now playing videos in Kaffeine won't crash the X server anymore for me, can you believe it!

Sorry to hear others aren't that lucky, though.

Wow, that sounds encouraging coming from you, having in mind that what I only do with this driver is to play Nexuiz

[alexcorscadden]

Sadly, the context creation issue (the successive connection bug) is still present. If one of the AMD folks wants to contact me, I have source for a small test app that I submitted to someone at AMD/ATI a few months back that very quickly (2 seconds to compile, less than a second to run) proves the existence of this bug.

Stability seems to be better now. I can call glXCreateNewContext without risking a segfault deep inside libGL.

[SavageX]

Good release for me so far (Radeon 3850, x86_64 Ubuntu 8.04) - now playing videos in Kaffeine won't crash the X server anymore for me, can you believe it!

Sorry to hear others aren't that lucky, though.