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On Mittwoch 28 Oktober 2009, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> On 28 Oct, Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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> > There's a thread in the forum as well. Searching for fglrx it's the first |
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> > one right now, though it's titled towards nvidia. But just look inside. |
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> > there are instructions on how to revert back. However, the following rule |
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> > always holds true if you are using fglrx (and to some extent, the nvidia |
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> > driver): before updating your system, check if there's any important |
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> > update for X, and if so, please, always triple check in the forum and the |
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> > web that the new X release is supported by your drivers. |
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> > At least for fglrx, this is almost never true so the regular procedure is |
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> > to mask the packages that are about to be updated, and check again when a |
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> > new ati-drivers revision is in place. |
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> The 9.10 release of ati-drivers is quite recent and appered after |
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> xorg-server-1.7.0 so I had some hope. |
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> Helmut. |
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there is a three month dev cycle and they only work with released software. So |
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January is a fair guess. Maybe February. Unluckily Ubuntu is not using this X |
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version or they would have been a bit quicker ;) |
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