Proprietary Driver for Ubuntu 9.04: Fglrx for X Server 1.6

Mar 19, 2009, 13:32 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Kristian Kissling)

"Users of ATI graphics cards are used to some grief. Added to the chaos that many coexisting drivers can cause, now comes the announcement that commercial driver support for some pretty recent graphics cards is available. Insight comes from Bryce Harrington in an Ubuntu mailing list. AMD/ATI is providing a commercial driver, the fglrx 6.800, that should work with X Server 1.6."

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