Fedora 8 Update: xorg-x11-drv-amd-2.7.7.7-2.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2550
2008-03-21 21:40:16
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Name        : xorg-x11-drv-amd
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 2.7.7.7
Release     : 2.fc8
URL         : http://www.x.org/wiki/AMDGeodeDriver
Summary     : Xorg X11 AMD Geode video driver
Description :
X.Org X11 AMD Geode video driver.

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Update Information:

xorg-x11-server-1.3.0.0-44.fc8     - VIA: Prefer openchrome to via driver during
autoconfiguration.     - X86EMU: Fixes to allow AMD Geode to work on several
BIOS's.     - Autoconfigure AMD Geode to 'geode' driver       ('amd' remains
supported in xorg.conf)     - EXA fixes    xorg-x11-drv-amd-2.7.7.7-2.fc8
Latest upstream version with a great many bug fixes for the AMD Geode driver.
The new driver name 'geode' is provided in preparation for the upstream driver
rename, 'amd' remains supported for existing xorg.conf.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Mar 14 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.7.7.7-2
- proper versioned provides
* Fri Mar 14 2008 Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> 2.7.7.7-1
- 2.7.7.7
* Mon Mar 10 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 0.0-26.20080310
- finally pciaccess build for AMD
* Mon Mar 10 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 0.0-25.20080310
- resnapshot for pciaccess goodness
* Mon Mar 10 2008 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 0.0-24.20070625
- pciaccess fixups
* Wed Feb 20 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject.org> - 0.0-23.20070625
- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #422511 - Make Geode X.org driver work
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=422511
  [ 2 ] Bug #340471 - Enabling EXA acceleration draws a black background in nautilus icon view
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340471
  [ 3 ] Bug #340511 - EXA acceleration causes graphic corruption
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340511
  [ 4 ] Bug #416441 - EXA graphics acceleration: incorrect background colours in Nautilus windows
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=416441
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xorg-x11-drv-amd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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