Phoronix: AMD 8.35.5 Display Driver | Linux Today

Phoronix: AMD 8.35.5 Display Driver

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 30, 2007

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“Ch-ch-ch-changes… Not expecting to hear that with today’s
driver release? Well, we had not expected much improvement for the
March ATI Catalyst Linux driver either until we saw the driver
first hand. Today’s 8.35.5 release has implemented one major
change: a new Catalyst Control Center! AMD is eliminating the
fireglcontrolpanel in favor of the brand new AMD Catalyst Control
Center Linux Edition. In this review we will be looking at the new
8.35.5 display driver along with taking a very close look at this
much improved control area.

“Prior to talking about the Catalyst Control Center, a few other
changes also make up this release. The packaging scripts for SuSE,
Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora have all been updated…”


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