“A new version of the AMD driver from X.org improves support for
modern Radeon graphics chips. An updated mdadm, initially only
designed for developers, allows the RAID functions of modern Intel
motherboard chip-sets to be used. After nine months, the ALSA
project has published a new version.“AMD’s kernel and X.org developer Alex Deucher has published
version 6.14.0 of driver package xf86-video-ati. It contains the
X.org driver for Radeon graphics hardware, which provides much
better support for the latest version of Radeon graphics chips. For
example, it now not only controls the graphics kernel of the Fusion
processors developed under codename “Ontario”, but also the
Northern Islands GPUs based on Radeon HD models 62xx to 68xx. With
both of them, 2D acceleration via EXA now works, as does video
acceleration with the antiquated Xv (Xvideo), but in both cases the
driver remains dependant on Linux kernel 2.6.38, which is still
under development and is expected to be released at the end of
March or beginning of April. Its DRM driver with functions for KMS
(kernel-based mode-setting) is required anyway for Northern Islands
GPUs because the driver does not support UMS (user mode-setting) on
these chips.”
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