AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-drivers voor zijn ATI Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht. De download is 83MB groot en kan zowel voor 32bit- als 64bit-omgevingen worden gebruikt. Versie 9.12 is geschikt voor Radeon HD2400 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 de nieuwste versies van de SUSE- en RedFlag-distributies en zijn er enkele verbeteringen aan de Catalyst Control Center aangebracht. Verder treffen we enkele bugfixes aan, gevolgd door een aantal problemen die al bekend zijn, maar waar de techneuten bij AMD nog aan sleutelen:
New FeaturesResolved Issues
- Support for New Linux Operating Systems
- RedFlag DT6.0 SP3
- SLED and SLES 10SP3
- ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Displays pages: user interface enhancements
This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for a number of new display features found in the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition, highlights include:
- CRT/VGA settings
- New Size and Position page
- New HDTV page
- TV settings
- New option for “Automatic setting for Size and Position adjustment”
- New image quality settings: “flicker removal” and “S-Video/Composite sharpness”
- Component Video settings
- New Scaling Options page – new Overscan / Underscan controls
- New custom mode support for 576 modes
- Support for display projectors
- Enables quick display configuration of display projectors
Known Issues
- Desktop resolution changes through Catalyst Control Center are now applied on restart of X
- Catalyst Control Center: Display is now mapped to the correct desktop/screen after X restarts
- In dual-head mode, performing a XRandR command (rotation or screen resolution change) on screen 1 no longer cause both screens to display corruption
- Catalyst Control Center: disabling one of the displays on a multi-monitor configuration, may become enabled on Xserver restart
- On some configurations the Operating System may become unresponsive when switching between virtual terminals
- Catalyst Control Center: on some systems configurations setting a customized modes may not be applied
- Some Open GL applications may show corruption when running with CrossFire enabled and Anti-Alias 16x
- Some systems may become unresponsive during video play back with certain Dual Head configurations on Ubuntu 9.04 x86 64bit
- Catalyst Control Center: on some systems setting a customized modes may not be applied
- Catalyst Control Center: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 - 32 system may stop responding after selecting "Detect Displays button" and hot-plugging a HDMI display
- CrossFire may fail to be enabled on some Ubuntu 9.10 configurations with ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series adapter
- X may stop responding after executing multiple Xserver generations with Xinerama enabled on Ubunut 9.10
- Catalyst Control Center: Super Anti-Aliasing (16x) mode may not be available on some display adapters when Crossfire is enabled
- Catalyst Control Center: some system configurations may stop responding when display scalinng has been enebled
- In some Dual-Head mode configurations a segmentation fault may occur when X is stopped
- [Ubuntu 9.04] Some video adapters may stop video output signals when monitor has been powered off and powered on again
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