[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#671320: Bug#671320: fglrx-driver: due to dependencies, uninstallable with current xorg in sid

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 20.05.2012 12:53, schrieb Ralf Jung:
> Hi,
> 
>> fglrx 12-5 will work with the new XOrg, but....
> 
>> Support for your card is also dropped with 12-5, to be exactly with 12-5 
>> fglrx will not work with R6xx and R7xx ASICs anymore, so you might 
>> switch to the radeon driver, now.
> where did you get this from? I read somewhere that AMD plans to drop support 
> for these cards soonish, but wasn't aware that this is already going to be the 
> case in the next version. Also, out of curiosity I wonder how you know that 
> 12-5 will support xserver 1.12.
> 

I know it ;)

AMD will continue a legacy driver for the older models, but this one
will not support Xserver 1.12, why we have to go with the new driver on
wheezy..


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