Ubuntu
fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #314600
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 314600

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fermulator (fermulator) wrote : Re: fglrx versions newer than 8.543 cause system hang and panic

Apparently this is an incompatibilty from ATI (fglrx) with the latest xserver? The move from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 has a newer version of xserver, which is incompatible with ATI's latest 9.3 Catalyst. The worst part is, that I just noticed that ATI recently announced the following cards as "Legacy":
ATI Radeon 9500 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
ATI Radeon X550 Series
ATI Radeon X600 Series
ATI Radeon X700 Series
ATI Radeon X800 Series
ATI Radeon X850 Series
ATI Radeon X1050 Series
ATI Radeon X1300 Series
ATI Radeon X1550 Series
ATI Radeon X1600 Series
ATI Radeon X1650 Series
ATI Radeon X1800 Series
ATI Radeon X1900 Series
ATI Radeon Xpress Series
ATI Radeon X1200 Series
ATI Radeon X1250 Series
ATI Radeon X2100 Series

Any of these above cards will not see a newer Linux driver release past Catalyst 9.3.

Are we screwed?