Where is fglrx / catalyst 8.5?

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ebuild with 2.6.26 patch

Here is an ebuild file I made for Gentoo users who wish to use Kernel 2.6.26. I took it from the ebuild in the...

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Ha! Good thing I reminded them!

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A week *so far* ...

Every month I get all excited thinking, "maybe this will be the one where I never ever have to reboot to Windows...

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They seem to take longer and longer every month. Hopefully this will be a major quality improvement release like 8.3 and not a waste of a month like...

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compiz

By the way I came across this note in the Gentoo compiz howto and I wanted to share it here because I don't think anyone had mentioned...

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Honeymoon is over

After two days of use I still love this driver release. XVideo is good, and this is the first time I've gotten compiz...

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8 - 3 = 5

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As far as I'm concerned that's the understatement of the year. I don't want to speak too soon (I've been messing with it for about 30 minutes) but as...

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I'll be damned. It actually did do something... I lost 500fps. To wit:

fozzie ~ # glxgears
16998 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3399.512...

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I'll be damned, I forgot all about amdcccle (I'd set the "refresh" option to fix the flicker, and it didn't do it, but I figured it eventually...

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I wasn't kidding about that 60 FPS thing. Actually it is so consistently close to 60fps that I think it may have been throttled somehow. Why is my luck...

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hardlock



I am one of these poor unfortunate X1400 users as well... in my laptop (*sigh*).

I can confirm...

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diagnosis diagonal



Muchas gracias, Bridgman. That is all I ever wanted to hear regarding fglrx. (Of course, how soon...

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I agree, and if they fix that I will never have to upgrade the driver again ...

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Hope springs eternal



Actually (in response to my own skepticism) I just noticed that the known issues (as of 7.12 actually)...