Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-ati
In mid-August we uploaded ati-6.6.193 to gutsy, when it was apparent that there would be a new upstream version 6.7 available shortly. Instead, it was decided to skip 6.7 and merge randr-1.2 branch in the driver, and release that as 6.7.191. The reasoning was that the old code base was "a dead duck" maintenance wise...
6.6.193 also introduced some regressions, which are unlikely to be fixed by upstream, so we have asked people to test the 6.7.19x series on the forum:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=490982
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=544580
There still are some issues, but they need to be sorted out anyway. Upstream is pleased to have active testing, and is planning on releasing a .193 or even 6.8.0 release within a week or two.
I'll add other information tomorrow, hang on.
Going through the bugs reported using this version there are no bugs that don't also affect the current version, or they are EXA related (which is not enabled by default) or other bizarre compiz-related bugs (slowness etc).
Instead, there is at least one long-standing bug which is confirmed being fixed with this release:
https:/
surely there are others too, but asking people to test an unofficial driver outside the distribution is hard, plus it doesn't scale.