ati_logo ATI 8.29.6 Display DriversOnce again, it is the time of the month when new ATI display drivers are presented and it’s now the task of Phoronix to evaluate this latest package. Over the past several months, we have seen a horde of improvements reach the proprietary drivers from the Radeon X1000 support earlier this year to X.Org 7.1 support. Other recent changes include a combined i386/x86_64 installer, new distribution packaging support, Radeon X1000 TV-out support, ATI Events Daemon, dynamic displays, and many aticonfig changes. Today with the release of the 8.29.6 fglrx drivers there have not been many changes that affect the end-user, but still there are some items worth mentioning. After several drivers of heated changes, it looks as if we have now reached a slowdown in their development cycle as ATI prepares for the next arsenal of features and fixes. Hitting this month’s 8.29.6 driver is Linux 2.6.18 support, removal of R200 product support, and a few resolved issues.

First and foremost, Radeon R200 support has been completely removed from the fglrx display drivers. Earlier this year R200 users experienced the OpenGL API entry point issue; a month later was the official removal of this support from the Windows Catalyst display drivers. Finally, with the 8.29.6 drivers it is time that we say a final farewell to this R200 support.

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