AMD 8.40.4 Display Driver [Released]
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| Changes in the ATI/AMD 8.40.4 driver include the ATI signature
| (/etc/ati/signature, what had led to the watermark problems in 8.39.4) now
| being generated during the extraction stage of the install process. There is
| also a fix for Qt applications when DPI is specified on the Xserver command
| line. While nothing incredible, the 8.40.4 driver also has new TV out control
| options within the AMD Catalyst Control Center (it's now at version 1.3).
| There is also the usual variety of minor packaging script changes.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=804&num=1
Also new:
One Bug A Day Keeps AIGLX Away
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTk4MA
Open-Source Radeon TV Out
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTk3OQ
Related:
ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers
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| An unpatched flaw in an ATI driver was at the center of the mysterious Purple
| Pill proof-of-concept tool that exposed a way to maliciously tamper with the
| Windows Vista kernel.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=438
Avivo R500 Linux Driver Status
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| A month ago we told you that Avivo v0.1.0 (the open-source ATI R500 X1000
| Linux driver) was coming soon, but still we have not seen this release.
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http://phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTk2NQ
Avivo vs. Fglrx Driver In GtkPerf
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| As you can see from the timed results, the GTK+ performance when using
| the Avivo driver with ShadowFB enabled had sharply outperformed the
| 8.39 fglrx driver (partly due to the CPU operations).
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=779&num=1
ATI R200 TV-Out In Open-Source Driver
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| The GATOS project has long been known as the path to take for enabling TV
| output support with the open-source X.Org driver on the Radeon 8500 to 9250
| (R200) series, but soon you may no longer need to worry about the GATOS
| patch.
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http://www.phoronix.com/?page=news_item&px=NTkzNg
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