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

[Grant Williamson]

Still issues with last 2 drops of ATI and some cards i.e. 9000
i.e.
http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373

WSR wrote:
> https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.26.18.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
>