Hey guys. AMD's released their new radeon drivers, which are a complete rewrite. Exciting times, however AMD warns that these might not be production ready. After a bit of thought, I've decided to keep the 8.40.4 drivers in the repos for now (especially since this new release doesn't add kernel 2.6.23 or xorg 7.3 support) but make a custom repo for the new drivers for those who want to experiment. In the spirit of not doing things unilaterally, I'm notifying you all here. If there's no objection, I'll be posting an advisory to the forums later (maybe tonight or tomorrow) that will say essentially the following: -8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<-- Hi everyone, Today, AMD's 8.41.7 fglrx drivers, which are a complete rewrite of their codebase which they have spent more than a year of work on, were released today. On their release notes page, they offer the following recommendation: [quote]Caution: AMD recommends that this release of the AMD Proprietary Linux software driver not be used for distribution packages. Distributors should continue to use the AMD Proprietary Linux driver version 8.40.4[/quote] After some thought, I've decided to take this warning to heart, and will not be packaging this version of the drivers 'officially'. HOWEVER, tonight or possibly tomorrow I will be making packages for these drivers and a custom repo to obtain them from if you wish to test them out - these will not be 'official' archlinux packages, however, and the 8.40.4 release will remain in the repos until AMD releases a new version which they feel is suitable for general use. I will update this advisory once the new packages are available, and hope you all understand my reasoning on this. -8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<---8<-- Any thoughts or suggestions, just reply to this thread. :) Thanks, Travis