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qwerty

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Registered: 2004-12-17

Posts: 183

Ati drivers 8.14.13

New ati drivers are out, i've built 'em on my machine and it seems they are working fine:

[qwerty@CiciulO ati-drivers]$ fglrxinfo
display: :0.0  screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9100 DDR Generic
OpenGL version string: 1.3.1003 (X4.3.0-8.14.13)

[qwerty@CiciulO ati-drivers]$ glxgears
10350 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2070.000 FPS
10700 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2140.000 FPS
10703 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2140.600 FPS
10680 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2136.000 FPS
10702 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2140.400 FPS
10695 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2139.000 FPS
10673 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2134.600 FPS

PKGBUILD and all the other stuff needed is in the AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ati-d … i-drivers/

For more infos about how to make em work:
http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/At … rnel%202.6

Let me know something, feel free to correct everything i wrote, my english suck

c ya

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Ati drivers 8.14.13

Wiki looks good, qwerty.  Question (kind of related): You've got kernel 2.6.11.10 in your pkgbuild.  When I first installed the ATI drivers, I custom-compiled 2.6.11.7 with the agp modules.  Is there any driving reason I should upgrade to .11.10 if I have no problems with .7?

DarkPath

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Registered: 2004-11-15

Posts: 50

Re: Ati drivers 8.14.13

qwerty,

As always, thanks for the quick response to the release of new ATI drivers!

Cerebral,

The only reason you should want/need to recompile your kernel is if there's something in the kernel that's changed sometime between 2.6.11.7 and 2.6.11.11 (current stable release as of this posting). Of course, if you install the drivers on your current kernel and there are problems, that also might merit recompiling.

To see what's changed between 2.6.11.7 and 2.6.11.11, just check the changelogs at www.kernel.org . Here they are for quick reference; I'd check them over to see if there's any important patches you think you want/need before considering recompiling:

2.6.11.8 - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ … g-2.6.11.8
2.6.11.9 - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ … g-2.6.11.9
2.6.11.10 - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ … -2.6.11.10
2.6.11.11 - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ … -2.6.11.11

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

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Re: Ati drivers 8.14.13

Thanks for the quick reply DarkPath, and the links to the changelogs.  Now that I know where to look, I shouldn't have to bother fine people like you anymore.

qwerty

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Registered: 2004-12-17

Posts: 183

Re: Ati drivers 8.14.13

I've got kernel 2.6.11.10 in my pkgbuild just because it's actually the "official" arch kernel version, you don't have to upgrade to it if you don't need it. I made it just because i hope they're gonna make arch official kernel with AGP stuff builded as a module so ppl can make ati drivers work just downloading the PKGBUILD (and all the other stuff) and run makepkg.

GrTz

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