Advanced Micro Devices heeft eergisteren nieuwe display drivers voor Linux uitgebracht. Ze hebben versienummer 8.40.4 meegegeven, kunnen hun werk doen op alle kaarten vanaf de Radeon 9500. De driver is geschikt voor zowel 32- als 64-bits omgevingen, is geschikt voor XFree86 versie 4.3 en X.org 6.7 tot en met 7.2, en is 38,4MB groot. Nieuw in deze release is de ondersteuning van tv-out. Verder wordt nu ook de 64bits versie van de Linux Catalyst Control Centre meegeleverd, die in de plaats komt van de oude FireGL Control panel. De rest van het changelog ziet er als volgt uit:
New FeaturesResolved Issues
- TV Out Functionality
TV out functionality is now available under the Linux operating system for ATI graphics cards that support TV Out (S-video, composite, and component video). The feature is part of the Catalyst Control Center LE and will provide a users with a variety of TV out adjustments.
Note: TV Size and Position functions for ATI Radeon™ X1200 series of products and above are adjusted through the aticonfig command line.- Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition
This release of the Catalyst Linux introduces a 64-bit version of the Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.Known Issues
- A black screen is no longer observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used.
- Connecting a component Video display device launching X-Server no longer results in X-Server failing to start and the display device displaying a black screen.
- The DRI no longer fails to initialize in the second server generation.
- Pressing the identify displays function no longer results in display device 1 and 2 being incorrectly identified.
- A Floating Point Exception error no longer occurs when launching amdcccle.
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- Corruption may be observed with certain applications on some Linux distributions which enable the Composite extension by default, e.g., RHEL 5. If you are observing application corruption, please disable the Composite extension.
- Using the xgl enabled x-server interface disables display switching hot plug support
- There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode.