AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-drivers uitgebracht voor zijn ATi Radeon-videokaarten. Versie 8.2 van de Linux-driver kan overweg met versies 6.7 tot en met 7.3 van X.org, Linux-kernel 2.6 en hoger en glibc 2.2 of 2.3. Linux-kernel 2.4 en Xfree86 4.3 worden niet langer ondersteund. De laatste versie die dat deed was versie 8.42.3. De release notes van Catalyst Linux Display Driver 8.2 laten de volgende veranderingen zien:
Resolved IssuesKnown Issues
- The Xserver no longer crashes if the screen resolution is changed in horizontal or vertical desktop setup with a monitor that does not support DDC.
- The Xserver no longer segfaults or fails to initialize DRI if a BusID was specified in an unexpected format in xorg.conf.
- The Xserver no longer freezes on shutdown if atieventsd is running.
- The first OpenGL application run after starting a session on Xserver version 1.4 no longer hangs.
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- On workstation hardware 3D applications will be corrupted if the screen width is not an integer multiple of 64 pixels, for example with a 1680x1050 wide screen display.
- There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode.
- Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode.
- A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used.
- Display flicker may be noticed when the gnome screen-saver starts
- Diagonal tearing may be noticed when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
- Video playback may look blocky when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
- Video Playback may display wrong colors and additional shadow images when cropping or expanding a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
- Building RPM packages for Mandriva may fail