Posted on Saturday, January 26 2008 @ 9:17 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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.
Check it out
at Phoronix.
