[Visit my earlier post for part 1]
In this post we will see how to install catalyst binary driver without uninstalling the open source driver and keeping both the drivers. Catalyst fglrx legacy driver is not support by Xorg higher than 1.12 and kernel versions 3.5. Although with specific kernel patch you can go till kernel 3.8 3 3.10.32.
Note: This post is updated to use with kernel 3.10.32 catalyst fglrx support....
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Saturday, 7 December 2013
AMD Catalyst fglrx driver and Open Source Radeon driver: Enjoy both on Gentoo Linux- Part 1
This guide is applicable for the owners of ATI Radeon R600 Series(Radeon HD 2XXX/3XXX/4XXX series). Last year AMD dropped support for these cards and moved it under legacy product category. So if you are upgrading your Linux distro, you are left with no choice than to use Open Source Radeon Driver.
The good news is that the gap between the open source and catalyst drivers are becoming narrow thanks to the recent Kernels...
Friday, 6 December 2013
Android Kitkat 4.4 - Experience experimental ART Runtime Feature on SGS I9000
Android 4.4 brings experimental support for ART(Android Run Time) the alternative for Dalvik runtime. For curious novice, Dalvik is the VM that powers the android app, which are basically written in Java. The compiled byte code is interpreted by the Dalvik VM. A good background on Android Runtime Dalvik VM can be found here.
Dalvik VM...
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