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ATI 6.7.197 X.Org Driver Coming Soon

Written by Michael Larabel in AMD on 17 December 2007 at 10:09 PM EST. Add A Comment

The xf86-video-ati 6.7.196 driver was released about a month ago, but Alex Deucher has reported that he soon will be releasing v6.7.197 of this open-source Radeon driver. This driver will be released in the coming days and does include a few interesting changes. The xf86-video-ati 6.7.197 driver will include improved PLL handling, better lid status support on Linux, fixed EXA transforms, support for more Mac graphics cards, cursor rotation fixes, and bug fixes. This announcement was made on Alex Deucher's blog.

In related news, the ATI Catalyst 7.12 Linux driver will be released in the near future as well as another AMD graphics documentation dump.

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