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 10.8 is geschikt voor Radeon HD 2400 en hoger, de FireStream 9170, 9250 en 9270, en de embedded E2400 en E4690. Verder worden versies 6.8 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 zijn ondersteuning voor versie 11 SP1 van SUSE Linux Enterprise en OpenGL ES 2.0. Het changelog toont verder enkele bugfixes en een lijst met bekende problemen waarvoor nog geen oplossing is.
Support for New Linux Operating Systems
This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:OpenGL ES 2.0 support
- SLED/SLES 11 SP1 production support
Resolved Issues
- ATI Catalyst 10.8 delivers full support for OpenGL ES 2.0 specification
- Enables 3D accelerated graphics within a web browser that supports OpenGL ES 2.0
- Supported on Linux distributions
Known Issues
- Disabling the primary display in clone/dual-head mode no longer causes Catalyst Control Center not to launch properly after X restart
- Desktop arrangement area no longer appears empty when Catalyst Control Center is relaunched after disabling or hot-unplugging the secondary display
- X-server no longer fails when launching fullscreen OpenGL application with CrossFire enabled and secondary display selected for accelerated display
- Catalyst Control Center will now launch properly under a 2 Gemini ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series multi-adapter configuration
- "Glxgears/fgl_glxgears" full screen application no longer remain on the desktop after they are closed using X button
- 6% performance drop is no longer observed while running fgl_glxgears and glxgears on specific cards
- 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
- 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
- Rotated screen may fail to properly restore after running full-screen OpenGL application in dual-head mode; a switch VT will restore screen correctly
- Mouse cursor might be blocked from entering the taskbar area after applying specific rotations
- Significant delay may be observed while rotating screen with XRandR
- OpenSuSE 11.3: Corruption may be visible on Firefox while scrolling the window by dragging the scrollbar
- Segmentation fault may occur when running "Quake 4" and "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars" at 1280x1024 or resolutions higher than current desktop resolution
- SUSE 11.2: With a DP display connected to the adapter, a hot-plugged DFP display may fail to light up in clone mode
