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fig_wright
January 18th, 2013, 09:20 PM
The Catalyst 13.1 drivers are out. This is a major release, with official support for Ubuntu 12.10. Does anyone know if they will be back- ported to Ubuntu 12.4?

PS I know the driver binary can be installed manually, but I want to avoid that.
fig_wright
January 19th, 2013, 03:08 PM
Does anyone at least know when this driver will be issued as the "updates" driver for Ubuntu 12.10?
Mark Phelps
January 19th, 2013, 03:10 PM
The Catalyst 13.1 drivers are out. This is a major release, with official support for Ubuntu 12.10. Does anyone know if they will be back- ported to Ubuntu 12.4?

PS I know the driver binary can be installed manually, but I want to avoid that.

Don't KNOW, but it's unlikely. The newer drivers required X-server v1.13 -- and Ubuntu 12.04 uses X-server v1.12 -- and AMD already announced this last summer that they were dropping retricted driver support for the HD 2x/3x/4x series for future drivers. It's very unlikely that they will spend the time to reverse this position to make the new drivers work with the older cards (and X-server version).
ttoine
January 21st, 2013, 11:55 PM
https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

The new AMD driver is already available for 12.04 with all the x-org dependencies.
fig_wright
January 25th, 2013, 02:51 PM
Awesome - great reply :popcorn:
fig_wright
January 25th, 2013, 02:56 PM
Link for doing the above:
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56790-HOW-TO-Install-experimental-X-Org-and-the-latest-graphics-drivers&

Looks experimental. Caution:


“xorg crack pushers” team Packages for those who think development versions, experimental and unstable are for old ladies. We want our crack straight from upstream git! Well, straight, we want it built and packaged so we don't need to know what we're doing, except that we will break our X and put our computers on fire.

LOL.