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Release date: October 23, 2007
Release date: October 23, 2007


The "oh my God" driver, supporting AIGLX and containing many fixes for who knows how many problems.
==Known Issues==
 
* There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26985
Alternately,
* Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
 
* A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28558
The "Oh my God" driver, containing God alone knows how many new bugs.
* The display may go blank with clone/dual/horizontal mode configured or switching VT on systems containing an ATI Radeon 9800 XT product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29574
* An error message appears during installation if dash is used as /bin/sh. A topic number is not available for this issue
* Several distribution-specific packaging scripts are not up-to-date in this release. In particular packaging for 64-bit Ubuntu versions is known to be broken. A topic number is not available for this issue


==External links==
==External links==


* [http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run Installer] ([https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run HTTPS])
* [https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run Installer]
* [http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.42.3.html Release notes] ([https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.42.3.html HTTPS])
* [https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.42.3.html Release notes]
* [http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html fglrx FAQ] ([https://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html HTTPS])
* [http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.42.3-inst.html Installer Instructions]
 
* [http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html ATI Proprietary Linux Driver FAQ]
* [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=887 Phoronix: AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX!]
* [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=887 Phoronix: AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX!]


[[Category:Releases]]
[[Category:Releases]]

Latest revision as of 03:20, 28 July 2012

ATI Linux fglrx driver version 8.42.3

Release date: October 23, 2007

Known Issues

  • There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26985
  • Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
  • A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28558
  • The display may go blank with clone/dual/horizontal mode configured or switching VT on systems containing an ATI Radeon 9800 XT product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29574
  • An error message appears during installation if dash is used as /bin/sh. A topic number is not available for this issue
  • Several distribution-specific packaging scripts are not up-to-date in this release. In particular packaging for 64-bit Ubuntu versions is known to be broken. A topic number is not available for this issue

External links