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[aoanla]

Because no one can fix issues in a proprietary driver but the official developers, for a start



I don't see anyone complaining...

[aoanla]

Or, of course, that all the ati users who aren't satisfied with 8.42.3 have given up hope for improvements in 8.43.x

(Or that, in general,...

[aoanla]

And now there's a release:

Version 169.04 (beta) was released yesterday, and claims 8800GT support among its features.

Announcement:...

[aoanla]

To be fair to ATI, they didn't do the hype. That was Michael/the rest of the Phoronix staff.

But, yes, if they actually communicated with...

[aoanla]

The fix is simple - there's a typo in your instruction... you're missing an underscore between
xorg-driver-fglrx and 8.42 - it should all be one...

[aoanla]

Well, I'd hope that ATI would've managed to get rid of the horrible memory leak in the OpenGL code in 8.42, for a start......

[aoanla]

The last I've seen of any discussion on the nvnews forums, which actually get nVidia employees on them, was a suggestion that a driver would be released...

[aoanla]

The big deal comes from community trust. nVidia has a track record of being supportive with Linux drivers, and has for many years. Because of this, people...

[aoanla]

...is this based on actual insider info, or just an educated guess based on the contents of that thread on the nvnews forums?

[aoanla]

Oh, come now. There's a difference between "disappointed because their hardware doesn't work" and "full of hatred". Hyperbolic mischaracterisation...

[aoanla]

You can still try to get it to generate a modeline for you, with the information you do have. It'll use common values for the things you've not filled...

[aoanla]

Right. Well, what the EDID parser does is to calculate modelines for each supported mode on your monitor. Instead, you can use online utilities to create...

[aoanla]

This isn't very helpful, but I thought I'd note that I have exactly the same issue, but in Feisty, not Gutsy.

Somewhere, the thread I started...

[aoanla]

Indeed, this is a killer flaw for my use of graphics drivers. They have until the next version to fix this, as far as I'm concerned.

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[aoanla]

As someone else said; the drivers.

A lot of us (well, certainly me, and I know there are others on this forum) bought ATI cards on the...