[ltp] Ati 8.26.18 released on Jun-26-2006

[Guarded Identity]

I've been running the limited generic drivers that come with X.org.  I've 
always found ATI drivers to be an incredible hassle to install.  

Has anybody using Debian found that this situation has improved?  Just to test 
the waters, I went to 
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1176 and got the 
22MB installer.  I tried to use it (sh ati-driver-installer-8.26.18-x86.run) 
and got the following error:

Creating directory fglrx-install
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux 
Driver-8.26.18..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
-e ==================================================
-e  ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager 
-e ==================================================
./ati-installer.sh: 163: Syntax error: Bad substitution
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install

Certainly this isn't boosting my confidence that there aren't further problems 
to deal with past this one.  Maybe someone running Debian has a recommended 
approach to installing this new driver?

- Sukant


On Wednesday 28 June 2006 9:12 pm, WSR wsr-at-rushforthnetworks.com |
LinuxThinkpad| wrote:
> https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.2
>6.18.html
>
> (OpenGL version string: 2.0.5879 (8.26.18))
>
> Those are the release notes.  Has anyone tried them yet?
>
> I just installed them on my T60, and "so far" no --set-powerstate
> corruption.
>
> I learned that I get this only if I boot up on battery and do not start
> the unit on A/C.  I tried that with these and it seemed stable.
>
> According to the release notes, it mentions that these drivers have some
> new power management features such as thermal management, but only
> active when you use atieventsd.
>
> Well on gentoo there is no atieventsd.  Same as of dapper (last I
> tried).  On SuSE and RHEL it is installed by the suse package.  Anyone
> have any clues on this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Scott