Archive for June, 2008
New ATI drivers version
Two days ago a new ati catalyst drivers were published, the 8.6.
Of course they’ve solved some bugs and improved the performance, but there is something new that is kind of interesting: the new command-line installer.
With older versions, we were able to install the drivers by two ways: with the graphical installer (not always working well) or the command-line installer that made the specific distributions packages (–buildpkg).
Since now, things will change. There is a new option for the command-line installer that allows to detect our distribution and its version and create directly the packages. Even more, it installs the created packages and configures the system. The specific command is:
sudo bash ./ati-driver-installer-8-6-x86.x86_64.run --buildandinstallpkg
However, that’s the theory. I tried to run it on my Ubuntu Hardy and the distribution was detected, packages were created, but it couldn’t install them (I don’t know exactly why). Even though, at least it was able to detect and create the specific packages by its own.
Finally, I installed the packeges manually, and it worked. The problem was that when I tried to run wine, the screen broke in two… (metaforicaly).
- Link | Release notes
- Download | Catalyst Linux Driver 8.6
