Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> ATI just released a new driver, the ATI Catalyst™ 7.11 Proprietary Linux >>> x86 Display Driver. Does anyone understand their numbering system? The >>> previous driver, released in October 2007 was 8.42.3. Is ATI going >>> backwards? Is 7.11 really the LATEST driver? >>> TIA, >>> Jonathan >> To answer my own question, when I started to build the debs from the >> installer, the version came out as 8.433-1. To be consistent, ATI should >> have called it 8.43.3-1 but at least not it appears to be a later version >> than 8.42.3-1. > It is a later version, this is ATI's new versioning scheme. The new > system will be: year.month . > > And sooner or later that scheme will be on the modules as well. > > /Magnus > > Thanks for that Magnus although they retain the original numbering if you build packages. Anyway under this system the previous installer would have been 7.10. Ok, makes sense. Cheers, Jonathan -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/
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