Much Awaited AMD/ATI ATI 8.42.3 Drivers Available with AIGLX

Little late with news, but still ….. The ATI/AMD fglrx driver for x86 and x86_64 Linux is now available! . In addition to the AIGLX support, the fglrx 8.42.3 driver includes X.Org server 1.4 support, video playback improvements, more performance improvements, and Rialto AGP fixes. While this driver quite promptly supports X.Org 7.3 / X server 1.4, it does not contain Linux 2.6.23 kernel support. The new features mentioned in the release notes include support for AIGLX, X.Org 7.3, products older than the R600 now being enabled, and a new 3D user interface in the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.

AMD Proprietary Linux Release Notes for 8.42.3. For the time being the 8.42.3 download link is here. (x86_64)

Check this article for more details: AMD 8.42 Driver Brings Fixes, AIGLX!

P.S. Expect updates to my How-Tos for ATI driver installation and running Compiz Fusion on openSUSE with AIGLX, instead of Xgl … give me few days.

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Comment by Alginros on October 27, 2007

Hi, congrats for your amazing blog.

I tell you what happens to me. The problem I found using this driver is that when I logued-out, I suffer black-screens. Do you know something that can fix it??

Thank you very much, ;)

Comment by E@zyVG on November 22, 2007

As for me, unfortunately AIGLX does not seem to run very system-efficiently with this first AIGLX-enabled driver. Hopefully successive drivers will improve it so it doesn’t bog down the system so bad. Whether or not you use AIGLX, the OpneGL performance improvements in 8.42.3 are astounding.

Also it will be ice if Compiz team and Compiz Fusion can make aware of their codes that AIGLX is there now with fglrx, and perhaps even have (for now) option whether a user wants to use Xgl or AIGLX with ATI card. This way we do not have to manually tweak few files, such as adding “fglrx” string as WHITELIST in compiz-manager file, and fiddle with libGL files. The AIGLX extension needs more work and tuning from developers