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HD2600 = R600

Posted Jun 26, 2008 12:38 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: HD2600 = R600 by rfunk
Parent article: Linux Graphics, a Tale of Three Drivers

By the way, is there relatively pain-free method to test the latest and greatest drivers (and
X)? Doing a "dist-upgrade" can lead to nasty non-graphics related surprises, a live CD with
some applications (e.g. googleearth) would be more useful for this purpose.

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HD2600 = R600

Posted Jun 26, 2008 12:48 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

My colleagues and I use the most recent Ubuntu Live CD for that purpose.  But those 
only come out every six months.  If I want to get more fine-grained, there are places I 
can get .deb packages of the most recent driver versions for certain cards; installing 
those while retaining backups up previous known-working versions works for me.