New Approach To ATI Linux Driver Installation

Posted by phoronix on Jan 26, 2008 3:52 PM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
Mail this story
Print this story

Back in June of 2005 with the ATI Linux 8.14.13 driver release was a new installer to more easily facilitate the installation of this binary graphics driver using a graphical interface for a generic setup or generating distribution-specific packages (at that time Red Hat was the only officially supported distribution). With time, this installer has evolved by gaining new features and more distributions are being supported through their --buildpkg command for generating custom driver packages. These packaging scripts are now even hosted in the open for more community interaction. With two new driver options that will be formally introduced next month in Ubuntu's packaging scripts for the Catalyst 8.02 Linux driver, the installation process of the ATI fglrx driver on Ubuntu will become several steps easier.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community, Linux, PHP, Red Hat, Ubuntu

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.