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

[Florian Manschwetus]

Works great here with my 2.6.17 suspend2ram and disk works very fine 
except the ipw3945d and module combination problems but this seems to be 
a problem of distribution

Florian

Grant Williamson wrote:
> 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
>>
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