Driver-update: ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 9.3

AMD heeft nieuwe Linux-drivers voor zijn ATI Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht. De download is bijna 81MB groot en kan zowel voor 32bits- als 64bits-omgevingen worden gebruikt. Versie 9.3 van de Linux Display Driver kan overweg met versies 6.8 tot en met 7.4 van X.org, Linux-kernel 2.6 en hoger en glibc 2.2 en 2.3. In deze release is ondersteuning toegevoegd voor nieuwe Linux-distributies, treffen we een nieuwere versie van de Display Library SDK aan en is de display device property-pagina in de Catalyst Control Center verbeterd. Daarnaast laten de release notes de gebruikelijke lijst met bugfixes en reeds bekende problemen zien:

New Features

• This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:
  • RedFlag DT 6.0 sp2 production support
  • RedFlag DT 7.0 support (early look)
  • SLED and SLES 11 support (early look)
• New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
  • AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
  • The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
  • The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications - samples are provided within the SDK
  • The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site
• ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Display Device property page enhancement
  This release of ATI Catalyst Linux enables users to configure new display settings within the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.
  • HDTV mode support (720p, 1080i, 1080p, and custom) for digital displays
  • Color temperature controls for digital displays
  • Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast color controls for digital displays
  • Digital display controls (Overscan support, HDMI settings, DVI settings) OpenGL support for Compositing managers
  • Added support for the use of OpenGL clients under compositing environments such as compiz and kwin as found in Ubuntu and SuSE

Resolved Issues

• When X is killed, the desktop background no longer displays :0.1 remains
• Catalyst Control Center: Primary display manager no longer missing on systems with dual head enabled
• TV screen corruption no longer visible when TV standards aspect is set
• Display ports now detects properly with XRANDR for specific ASICs
• Catalyst Control Center: X no longer fails when the resolution is set to less than 1680x1050 through displays manager
• [SUSE11-64] X-Server will start properly when the driver is installed using RPM method
• The external LCD no longer displays garbage when pressing Fn+F4
• The internal LCD will no longer move with touchpad after pressing Fn+F4
• Video playback now functions properly after resuming from S3/S4 hibernation

Known Issues

• Resuming from sleep the display connected to add-on card remains off in some dualhead mode configurations
• System may become unresponsive when toggling between virtual terminals in multihead configuration with application running
• With both a DFP and CRT connected using the swap monitor option may cause the following error "KDE Panel - The KDE Crash Handler"
• [SUSE 11 64bit] CenterMode may fail to take effect on some ASICs
• Error may occur while setting the TV geometry
• Catalyst Control Center: Default button might not work properly for Warning Dialogue in preferrence page under specific conditions
• Starting X with a second hotplugged display may cause segmentation fault
• TV screen corruption may be visible while starting the X-server on some ASICs
• Stopping X in dual-head mode may cause segmentation fault
• Catalyst Control Center: Gamma values might not be maintained for color channels
• With both DP and CRT connected, starting X-Server in big desktop mode may cause the DP display to go off and on, for every few seconds
• [Ubuntu-8.10] CRT might be shown as connected in single mode DFP connection
• Error may be reported in dmesg running 3D apps for specific systems
• Catalyst Control Center: Incorrect formats are listed in HDTV Support page