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Ati Drivers
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As of a couple days ago, ATI released their next drivers for Linux. The drivers were previously announced to be versioned 8.43.x but ATI has converted to a new numbering system that follows the popular YEAR.MONTH notation. The 7.11 drivers therefore accurately represent their release date in November, 2007 and are what would have been 8.43.x.
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ATI's Proprietary drivers are not Red Hat specific, they are currently packaged in RPMs for convenience for dominant market players. Distribution vendors including SuSE and Gentoo regularly simply repackage the drivers for the convenience of their distribution users.
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[T]he ATI drivers put a temporary file in your tmpfs (/dev/shm/ATISHM00) but forgets to clean up after them. So it may be there from a different users or with bad permissions. Just remove the offending file.
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(In reply to comment #30) > patch ati-drivers-2.6.23.patch doesn't apply. > > ***** ati-drivers-2.6.23.patch ***** > Try this one: https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=134235 It's the same, but the paths have been corrected. In the ebuild there is a section where it checks for the kernel version, the patch belongs there. So if you have an older kernel it will not be applied.
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Note: if you have attempted before to install any ATI drivers the rpm remove command will not always remove the install files from the above directories. In which case you must manual remove them or enter the full filename otherwise you will encounter lib errors with conflicting files.. --davetharrison 10:44, 25 April 2007 (GMT)
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The 'ATI Smart' service is SMARTGART (see further down for an explanation of SMARTGART). After you install the drivers for the first time and reboot, this service configures your bus settings for you. After it has run once, there is no point in keeping its setting to Automatic.
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