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> > > On 12/21/10 09:02:32, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: |
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> > >> If you plan to |
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> > >> use proprietary drivers then I'd use some other brand. |
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> > > |
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> > > Why? |
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> > > |
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> > > I have several machines with an onboard Radeon HD 3300 chip. |
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> > > The recent versions of x11-drivers/ati-drivers (currently 10.11) |
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> > > run just fine with the lastest kernel (2.6.36) and the latest |
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> > > xorg-server (1.9.2.902) |
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> > |
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> > If you have been an fglrx user for a long time you should know that's |
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> > not the usual case (unless things have changed drastically in the |
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> > last |
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> > few months). |
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> Yes, I do think it has changed recently. |
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> There is even a a more recent version 10.12 but not in the tree, yet. |
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I've been using fglrx for 18 months without problem on amd64 (which is |
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currently using xorg 1.7.7). I would assume that ~amd64/~x86 would be more |
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troublesome as the driver will take some time to catch up with the latest |
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developments. |
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