AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-drivers voor zijn ATI Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht. De download is 96MB groot en kan voor zowel 32bit- als 64bit-omgevingen worden gebruikt. Versie 10.6 is geschikt voor Radeon HD2400 en hoger, de FireStream 9170, 9250 en 9270, en de embedded E2400 en E4690. Verder worden versies 6.7 tot en met 7.5 van X.org, Linux-kernel 2.6 en hoger, en glibc-versies 2.2 en 2.3 ondersteund. Nieuw in deze release is ondersteuning voor Red Hat Enterprise Linux versie 5.5 en OpenGL versies 3.3 en 4.0. Daarnaast is het 2d-weergavegedeelte herschreven, wat onder andere tot prestatieverbeteringen heeft geleid. Het changelog toont verder één bugfix en een lijst met bekende problemen waarvoor nog geen oplossing is.
New Features
Support for New Linux Operating Systems
This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
- RHEL 5.5 production support
2D performance enhancements
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon HD Series
ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers a new architecture for 2D acceleration. The new 2D architecture delivers fast windows resizing with Compiz/Visual-Effects and general 2D performance improvements in all AMD supported Linux distributions.Resolved Issues
The following section provides a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These include:
- "Xorg -probeonly" no longer causes screen corruption or the system to fail to respond
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These issues include:
- OpenCL 1.0 conformance tests have not been run with this version of the ATI Catalyst Driver Suite in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.1. If you require an OpenCL 1.0 conformant driver, we recommend that you install the ATI Catalyst 10.5 Driver Suite
- Desktop arrangement area may appear empty and fail to display the icon number when Catalyst Control Center is relaunched after disabling or hot-unplugging the secondary display
- Disabling the primary display in clone/dual-head mode may cause Catalyst Control Center not to launch properly after X restart
- Applying display rotation using Catalyst Control Center or XRandR may result in display turning blank with mouse cursor while rotating the display
- X-server may fail to start, or unusual behaviour may be observed, after applying various HDTV formats of 1080i30/25/p50 standard and optimized modes on DVI/DP displays
- CrossFire might not be enabled properly on the first Gemimi card, with Anti-Alias 8x displaying no visual changes, under a 2 Gemini multi-adapter configuration
- Xserver may fail when applying "Maintain Aspect Ratio" option from GPU scaling at maximum resolution
- [SUSE] Desktop corruption may be visible after applying rotation using Catalyst Control Center and restarting X
- Enabling a second ASIC without a monitor connected may result in black screen and X window not launching when startx is executed
- System may fail to display error message when improper position values are used in "aticonfig --tv-geometry" resulting in invalid "TVHPosAdj" and "TVVPosAdj" values in xorg.conf file
- [Ubuntu 10.04] X segmentation faults on startup on multi-ASIC systems
- Switching to clone mode by pressing Fn+F4 might not function properly after connecting an external VGA monitor
- Segmentation fault may occur when running "Quake 4" and "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars" at 1280x1024 or resolutions higher than current desktop resolution
