[ Thanks to Michael Larabel for this
link. ]
“After ATI’s successful launch last month of the fglrx 8.26.18
drivers, which had delivered an external events daemon (atieventsd)
and more, it is now time for us to discuss the changes in the newly
released 8.27.10 Linux display drivers. Of the changes in this
release include X11R7.1 support, Fedora Core packaging scripts, and
Radeon X1000 TV-out support. As always, we have all of the details
to share in our ATI fglrx 8.27.10 driver examination. For those
that had missed it, earlier this week Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
had announced a merger with ATI Technologies for $5.4 Billion USD.
This acquisition should increase the level of competitiveness
between manufacturers both in the CPU arena as well as on the
graphics forefront. We had sought comments from ATI’s Linux
department as whether this deal would have any impact on their
driver development, but at this time, it is simply not
known…”