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    Phoronix: Linux 3.0 Kernel Has Been Christened

    Officially marking the introduction of Linux 3.x, Linus Torvalds this evening announced the official release of Linux 3.0...

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    And now the one million ? question, the AMD/ATI proprietary drivers works with this kernel? Has anyone tested it?

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    • #3
      No, not yet. Just saw that 3.0 was released. Though Kernelside was often better than the interaction with xorg-server. 1.10 didn't seem supported by fglrx 11-6.
      Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Khudsa View Post
        And now the one million ? question, the AMD/ATI proprietary drivers works with this kernel? Has anyone tested it?
        Kernel changes can usually be worked around with a small patch.

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        • #5
          Catalyst will support the new kernel whenever the beta version of Ubuntu that runs the 3.0 kernel comes out.
          Unless something unexpected happens

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          • #6
            Recent Nvidia drivers have no problem with linux 3.0.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Khudsa View Post
              And now the one million ? question, the AMD/ATI proprietary drivers works with this kernel? Has anyone tested it?
              Who buys AMD hardware to run blob drivers??!?!?

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              • #8
                FGLRX can run on 3.0 with 2.6.39 patchs...

                Except if something big changed since the RC4, the last time I tested those infamous drivers.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by droidhacker View Post
                  Who buys AMD hardware to run blob drivers??!?!?
                  Umm. Well. Not intentionally but when fglrx gives you >10W better powersave than Kernel-drivers? (or the years b4 when the difference was >80W in idle.) When KMS gives you all sorts of random freezes on you slightly eldery RV670 chip (dunno why but it kept freezing, fglrx went with 1 freeze/crash in 3 or 4 months). Though I suspect the hardware to have become flakey over time (was a HD 3870 106W TDP but passive cooling, somehow I have the impression that some GPU or VRAM chip might be damaged, it also messed up during windows gaming).

                  But I ordered a HD 5670 anyway and I'll check KMS on that again as soon as it arrives. And probably then right with a 3.0 kernel.
                  Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Khudsa View Post
                    And now the one million ? question, the AMD/ATI proprietary drivers works with this kernel? Has anyone tested it?
                    Code:
                    chris@chrisl ~ % uname -a
                    Linux chrisl 3.0.0-mainline #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 22 11:22:36 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 480 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
                    chris@chrisl ~ % fglrxinfo
                    display: :0.0  screen: 0
                    OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
                    OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 6500M/5600/5700 Series
                    OpenGL version string: 4.1.10834 Compatibility Profile Context
                    chris@chrisl ~ %
                    Here is how it is built on Archlinux:


                    I use catalyst for the power saving too until https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31000 is fixed. And until OpenGL 2+ support is working.

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