Driver-update: AMD Catalyst Linux Display Driver 14.4 Release Candidate

AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-bètadrivers voor zijn Radeon-videokaarten uitgegeven. De download is 117MB groot en kan in zowel 32bit- als 64bit-omgevingen worden gebruikt. Versie 14.4 is geschikt voor de Radeon HD 5000 en hoger, en voor de geïntegreerde chipsets vanaf de 6200D. Verder worden versies 6.9 en hoger van Xserver, Linux-kernel 2.6 en hoger, en glibc-versies 2.2 en 2.3 ondersteund. De release notes maken melding van ondersteuning voor OpenGL 4.4 en de Radeon R9 295X, net als in de Windows-uitvoering. Verder zien we diverse bugfixes en ondersteuning voor Ubuntu 12.04.4.

Products:

• Support for the AMD Radeon R9 295X

Features:

• Ubuntu 12.04.4 support
• Full support for OpenGL 4.4
• OpenGL 4.4 supports the following extensions:
  • ARB_buffer_storage
  • ARB_enhanced_layouts
  • ARB_query_buffer_object
  • ARB_clear_texture
  • ARB_texture_mirror_clamp_to_edge
  • ARB_texture_stencil8
  • ARB_vertex_type_10f_11f_11f_rev
  • ARB_multi_bind
  • ARB_bindless_texture
  • ARB_spare_texture
  • ARB_seamless_cubemap_per_texture
  • ARB_shader_draw_parameters
  • ARB_shader_group_vote

Resolved Issues:

• [388835]: Corruption and system hang observed while running Sanctuary BM with Tear Free Desktop enabled
• [391994]: Memory leak about hardware context
• [392921]: EGL create context error for glesx
• [393622]: GPU hand in CrossFire Mode
• [392271]: [Piglit] Test "spec/arb_vertex_array_object" failed
• [393283]: Glxtest failures observed in log file
• [392666]: [Piglit] Test "glx/GLX_EXT_import_context/free context" failed
• [389496]: [Piglit] Test "spec/ARB_seamless_cube_map" failed
• [388194]: [Piglit] Test "texture swizzle with border color" failed
• [391231]: Blank screen observed while running steam games with Big picture
• [394935]: 4ms delay observed in the glxSwapBuffers when vsync is enabled
• [375710]: RBDoom3BFG the game auto quit when use the security camera terminal
• [394504]: ETQW segmentation fault