ATI heeft een nieuwe versie van de Catalyst Linux Display Driver uitgebracht. De nieuwe versie is vanaf deze pagina voor de 32bit- en 64bit-uitvoeringen van Linux te downloaden. Linux Display Driver kan overweg met X.org 6.8 en hoger, Linux-kernel 2.6 en glib 2.2 en nieuwer en de Radeon-videokaarten vanaf de HD 2400-, Mobility X2300- en FirePro 2260-series. In versie 9.5 heeft AMD een begin gemaakt met de support van Ubuntu 9.04 en wordt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 volledig ondersteund. Verder zijn er een aantal bugfixes voor Catalyst Control Center doorgevoerd, maar zijn nog niet alle bekende bugs uit de driver gehaald. De volledige release notes kan je hieronder lezen:
New FeaturesResolved Issues
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:
- RHEL 5.3 production support
- Ubuntu 9.04 support (early look)
Known 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
- 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