ATI releases update Linux drivers for Xfree 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3
I thought someone on the list might want to know that ATI released
updated drivers for their Radeon Fire GL and consumer 8500 series and
above video cards.
The release notes are exactly the same as the previous version, but I
thought I might give them a spin since Xv was a bit broken in the last
releases. Their workaround was to
use Mplayer with OpenGL acceleration, which didn't work for me.
Using Debian unstable on a Intel 875PBZ with a Tyan Radeon 9700 Pro and
kernel 2.4.21 everything works so far, and it looks like they fixed Xv
video support. Watching videos with Mplayer and DVD's with VLC looks great.
According to fglrxconfig, looks like they also added support for the
Radeon 9800 and Radeon 9200 series cards. The updated drivers are under
the FireGl -> Linux -> FireGl Z1 section. Clicking on Graphic Driver ->
Linux -> Radeon 9700 pro takes you to an outdated driver from November 2002.
Hope this helps
Here's the link to the drivers.
http://mirror.ati.com/support/products/workstation/fireglz1/linux/fireglz1linuxdrivers.html?type=firegl&driveros=linux&prod=fireLinBedriver&submit.x=9&submit.y=6&submit=GO%21
Nick
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