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ATi Driver 8.16.20   
Friday, August 19 2005 @ 11:52 PM EDT
Contributed by: glosser

LinuxGames.com let's us know ATI has released new drivers for Linux.

Thanks to readers for letting us know about the new ATi driver release. Version 8.16.20.

New features:

* This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver provides a noticeable performance increase for all supported ATI Workstation products.
* This release improves automatic detection of display devices when connected to an ATI graphics adapter. This allows for the display device to be configured using its Extended Display Identification Data (EDID) or to manually configured. For more information, refer to /usr/share/doc/fglrx/configure.html once the driver is installed.
* This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver introduces driver compatibly with Linux 2.6.12 kernel.
* The latest ATI Proprietary Linux driver now provides support for building the driver kernel module on systems with GCC 4.0
* The Debian and Ubuntu operating systems are now supported by the ATI Installer Package Generator. Updates have occured to the SuSE package generation.

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