ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 10.9

AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-drivers voor zijn ATI Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht. De download is 96MB groot en kan voor zowel 32bit- als 64bit-omgevingen worden gebruikt. Versie 10.9 is geschikt voor Radeon HD 2400 en hoger, de FireStream 9170, 9250 en 9270, en de embedded E2400 en E4690. Verder worden versies 6.8 tot en met 7.5 van X.org, Linux-kernel 2.6 en hoger, en glibc-versies 2.2 en 2.3 ondersteund. Nieuw in deze release is ondersteuning voor Red Hat Enterprise Linux versie 6, waarvan inmiddels bèta 2 beschikbaar is. Het changelog toont verder enkele bugfixes en een lijst met bekende problemen waarvoor nog geen oplossing is.

New Features

This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:

• RHEL 6 early look support

Resolved Issues

• System no longer fails while launching fgl_glxgears window when Anti-Aliasing and Desktop Effects are enabled
• [SUSE 11.1] Hardware playback now functions properly
• [OpenSuSE 11.3] Corruption no longer visible on Firefox while scrolling the window by dragging the scrollbar
• [SUSE 11.2] With a DP display connected to the adapter, a hot-plugged DFP display will now light up properly in clone mode

Known Issues

• Killing X-server after resuming from hibernation may cause the system to stop responding
• System may fail to display error message when improper position values are used in "aticonfig --tv-geometry" resulting in invalid "TVHPosAdj" and "TVVPosAdj" values in xorg.conf file
• Rotated screen may fail to properly restore after running full-screen OpenGL application in dual-head mode; a switch VT will restore screen correctly
• Mouse cursor might be blocked from entering the taskbar area after applying specific rotations
• Significant delay may be observed while rotating screen with XRandR
• Segmentation fault may occur when running "Quake 4" and "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars" at 1280x1024 or resolutions higher than current desktop resolution