AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-drivers voor zijn ATI Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht. De download is bijna 80MB groot en kan zowel voor 32bits- als 64bits-omgevingen worden gebruikt. Versie 9.2 van de Linux Display Driver kan overweg met versies 6.7 tot en met 7.4 van X.org, Linux-kernel 2.6 en hoger en glibc 2.2 en 2.3. In deze release treffen we geen nieuwe mogelijkheden aan, maar wel zijn er de nodige problemen verholpen. De release notes laten een lijst met bekende problemen zien, waar nog geen oplossing voor is:
Resolved IssuesKnown Issues
- Resolved visible corruption when starting MythTV frontend in full screen
- Catalyst Control Center, disabling primary display and re-launching CCC caused a Floating Point Exception
- Google Earth failed to start
- With some ATI adapters the display port monitor was not detected after being hotplugged
- Able to reboot or shutdown when ATI Catalyst Control Center is opened
- Catalyst Control Center, displayed the wrong version using the Information/Driver Version
- No audio output was available through HDMI
- Connecting both a CRT and DFP display device no longer results in the CRT failing to display an image if the DFP is disconnected and then reconnected to the system
- Corruption is no longer seen on secondary display after enabling secondary display Big Desktop
- Sections of the task bar no longer turn black when using the application 'Blender'
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars v1.4, system no longer becomes intermittently unresponsive when game is run.
- Some Open GL application no longer cause segmentation fault with Crossfire and dual head enabled
- Maya crash fixed when using the following settings subinvisions Axis and subinvisions Height are set to 2000
- Tearing no longer occurs during picture-in-picture playback of H.264,VC-1,MPEG2 files on SUSE
- Playing AVI files with Mplayer in full screen no longer causes Mplayer to stop responding
- Resolved, Video does not resize or may appear filled with pink/black when changing from a low to high resolution
- White screens may occur on the extended displays of a with a quad display configuration with 'Xinerama=on'
- Quake4 cannot start after using the load default option
- With both a DFP and CRT connected using the swap monitor option may cause the following error “KDE Panel - The KDE Crash Handler”
- X may fail to start when the driver has been configured with the following command: aticonfig --force-monitor=nocrt1
- RedHat 4.7 hot plugging a display may cause X to shutdown
- Some display corruption may be observed while returning from XServer with two display connected
- Catalyst Control Center, primary display manager may be missing on systems with dual head enabled
- Some systems may fail to restore after returning from hibernation
- Catalyst Control Center, the primary display is not identified when using the Identify Displays button
- X-Server may become unresponsive when hot plugging the display after changing the resolution
- Dual head mode, the mouse cursor cannot move to the secondary displays
- The mouse cursor may fail to render when hot plugging a display in clone mode
- Catalyst Control Center, on some systems X may fails to start when the resolution is set to less than 1680x1050 through displays manager
- With some system configurations Catalyst Control Center may take up to 30 seconds to start
- SUSE 11, No CrossFire confirmation is displayed when running Open GL applications
- Running Specviewperf 9.0.3 in CrossFire mode may causes a segmentation fault and failures in log file.
- When X is killed, the desktop background for the display:0.1 remains
- Screensaver corruption may be observed with 'xinerama on' in multi-head configuration.
- On some CrossFire systems resizing Glxgreas may cause some screen corruption
- Corruption may occur in Maya with a multview configuration using three displays
- Flickering may occur with some screensaver and Flash movies when using either Normal or Extra Visual Effects.
- X-Server may stop responding or shutdown when loading some Open GL applications on a secondary display
- On some systems with RedHat 4.7 and Radeon X1800 the system may fail to start after installing the display driver
- SUSE 10.3 32bit: The operating system may fail to respond when pressing “Ctrl+alt+F7/F8” to switch session when “fgl_glxgears” is running
- Image rendering is not visible and only able to see the blank application window when moving the application a secondary display
- Red Hat 5.2 32bit, KDM X windows may restart when user selects to “Start New Session” during user switch
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Ik heb om dit soort redenen ATI eruit gegooid. MythTV draait al meer dan 3 jaar als een zonnetje. Ik ga wel een keer terug als de opensource drivers goed genoeg lijken te zijn.
