Driver-update: ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 9.4

AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-drivers voor zijn ATI Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht. De download is 82,6MB groot en kan zowel voor 32bit- als 64bit-omgevingen worden gebruikt. Versie 9.4 van de Linux Display Driver kan overweg met versies 6.8 tot en met 7.4 van X.org, Linux-kernel 2.6 en hoger en glibc 2.2 en 2.3. Deze release voegt ondersteuning toe voor Red Hat Enterprise Linux versie 5.3 en voor de binnenkort te verschijnen versie 9.04 van Ubuntu. Verder laten de release notes weer de gebruikelijke lijst met bugfixes en reeds bekende problemen zien:

New Features

• Support for New Linux Operating Systems
  • RHEL 5.3 production support
  • Ubuntu 9.04 support (early look)

Resolved Issues

• Stopping X in dual-head mode no longer causes segmentation fault
• [SUSE 10.1] Indirect rendering no longer causes failures
• Catalyst Control Center: Default button now works properly for Warning Dialogue in preferrence page
• Catalyst Control Center: Gamma values now maintained for color channels
• Catalyst Control Center: Formats are now listed properly in HDTV Support page
• Playing video after resuming from S3/S4 no longer causes the system to stop functioning
• Errors are no longer reported in dmesg when running 3D applications

Known Issues

• Resuming from sleep the display connected to add-on card remains off in some dualhead mode configurations
• System may stop functioning while trying to start a third X-session on some ASICs
• System may become unresponsive when toggling between virtual terminals in multihead configuration with application running
• Catalyst Control Center: The primary display is not identified when using the Identify Displays button
• Error may occur while setting the TV geometry
• The display might not scale appropriately for each resolution/refresh rate change through amdcccle
• Starting X with a second hotplugged display may cause segmentation fault
• Game corruption might be observed in full screen when 2 monitors are connected and RandR 1.2 is enabled
• Video playback may exhibit corruption when desktop effects are enabled and Composite is not explicitly disabled
• TV screen corruption may be visible while starting the X-server on some ASICs
• [SUSE11] The display might not turn off while disabling the output
• [Ubuntu 8.10] Startx may fail with no monitor connected and RandR1.2 enabled
• [Ubuntu 8.10] System may become inoperative when starting X on surround view system
• Detecting second display using amdccle "Detect Display" button may result in error and will require a relaunch to detect both displays properly
• With both DP and CRT connected, starting X-Server in big desktop mode may cause the DP display to go off and on, for every few seconds
• [SUSE 11.X x86] System may fail to respond when executing multiple server generations
• The engine clock and memory clock values may be incorrectly reported by ATI CAL as 0MHz