Issue Report: fglrx-experimental drivers on 12.10?

[MaTachi \.Ubuntu./]

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 with an AMD 6870 card, and I'm trying to install the AMD 12.11 driver. I have read through the pages http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/1/882965118609963322/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Valve , however, I can't manage to find fglrx-experimental.

I have enabled Pre-released updates (quantal-proposed) in Software Sources, but only fglrx and fglrx-updates appear on Additional Drivers. And I'm neither able to find the package through the terminal with apt and aptitude.

[Evil Penguin]

I think it's only available on Ubuntu 12.04 ATM.
You'll have to manually install 12.11 or use another repo.

[MaTachi \.Ubuntu./]

Ah, okey, thanks. Do you know if there is a PPA?

[Evil Penguin]

https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa
xorg-edgers usually carries newer drivers, but I think they only have 12.10 for now.

[MaTachi \.Ubuntu./]

Do you think that 12.10 is enough? I have heard that AMD recently pushed out a new version that supposedly would give a good performance boost on Linux.
To manually install the driver, should I do something like this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/124292/what-is-the-correct-way-to-install-ati-catalyst-video-drivers-fglrx/129200#129200 ?
However, I currently have version 8.96.7 installed (I think it would be 12.4), so I guess both would be better.

[d2kx]

The new Source engine optimisations are included in the Catalyst 12.11 beta 8, but this driver is pretty broken. The first Catalyst 12.11 beta release is working quite well though.

[MaTachi \.Ubuntu./]

Okey, I guess I will wait until they are a bit more stable then. There is imo nothing worse than unstable graphics drivers. :p