AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-drivers voor zijn ATI Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht. De download is 89,4MB groot en kan zowel voor 32bit- als 64bit-omgevingen worden gebruikt. Versie 9.7 is geschikt voor Radeon HD2400, Mobility X2300 en FireGL V3600 en hoger. Overige systeemeisen zijn versies 6.8 tot en met 7.4 van X.org, Linux-kernel 2.6 en glibc-versies 2.2 of 2.3. In deze release is ondersteuning toegevoegd voor versie 7.0 van de Linux-distributie RedFlag en zijn er diverse problemen verholpen. Het changelog wordt zoals altijd gecomplementeerd met een opsomming van enkele problemen die wel al bekend zijn, maar waar nog aan gewerkt wordt:
New Features
This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:Resolved Issues
- RedFlag DT 7.0 production support
Known Issues
- X segmentation fault no longer occurs after applying reflections or rotations on some systems that support Xrandr 1.2 or higher
- Catalyst Control Center hot plugging a secondary display no longer causes screen corruption in clone mode
- Monitor are now disabled after removing the secondary display when system is in standby
- Some systems now report CrossFire adapters available during driver re-install
- On some multi-monitor configurations disabling one display no longer causes both displays to become disabled
- X Server does not intermittently fail to start on some multi adapter configurations
- Executing xrandr --prop no longer causes Ubuntu 9.04 X Server to stop responding
- [Ubuntu 9.04] Segmentation fault no longer occurs with X server Xinerama is enabled
- Toggling between terminals may cause the system to become unresponsive
- Catalyst Control Center Display Manager may fail to display HDTV PAL modes
- The mouse cursor may fail to switch between primary and secondary display in some dual-head configurations
- “aticonfig -xinerama=o”n may result in different dimension and dpi settings between Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04
- RandR 1.2 specifying Rotate in xorg.conf may cause X startup to fail
- The mouse cursor may show incorrect rotation and position on some systems with large desktop enabled
- Removing secondary display may cause the login screen to appear on the ghost monitor
- Moving the mouse cursor between two displays may show a the cursor on both displays simultaneously
- System may stop responding when running Return to Castle Wolfenstein
