Re: [solved] ATI 7.11 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver?
Magnus Pedersen wrote:
> 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
>
>
Thanks for that Magnus although they retain the original numbering if you
build packages. Anyway under this system the previous installer would have
been 7.10. Ok, makes sense.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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