Re: [solved] ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?

[Magnus Pedersen <bofhenator@gmail.com>]

Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Jonathan Kaye wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst™ 7.11 Proprietary Linux
> > x86 Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The
> > previous driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is ATI going
> > backwards? Is 7.11 really the LATEST driver?
> > TIA,
> > Jonathan
> To answer my own question, when I started to build the debs from the
> installer, the version came out as 8.433-1. To be consistent, ATI should
> have called it 8.43.3-1 but at least not it appears to be a later version
> than 8.42.3-1.
It is a later version, this is ATI's new versioning scheme. The new 
system will be: year.month .

And sooner or later that scheme will be on the modules as well.

/Magnus