Jan

18

2008

amdmainlogo.jpgAMD has released its first Linux drivers for the new year. This release adds support for Red Hat Enterprise 4.6 and 5.1 and Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Drivers also includes several resolved issues including custom mode lines in xorg.conf will no longer be ignored by the fglrx drivers. AMD’s new Linux 8-1 drivers can be downloaded here.


New Features
This release of the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite introduces support for the following new operating systems

* RedHat Enteprise Linux 5.1
* RedHat Enteprise Linux 4.6
* Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)


Resolved Issues:
* Corruption will no longer be noticed in the lower right corner of the display or on the mouse pointer after the system is running for a long period of time
* Connecting a display device that supports 1680×1050 to a system running Linux will no longer result in a maximum display resolution of 1280×1024 only being available
* Custom mode lines in xorg.conf will no longer be ignored by the fglrx driver
* Suspending to RAM or DISK on kernel version 2.6.23 or later no longer fails


Known Issues
* On workstation hardware 3D applications will be corrupted if the screen width is not an integer multiple of 64 pixels, for example with a 1680×1050 wide screen display. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31720
* There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26985
* Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
* A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30687
* Display flicker may be noticed when the gnome screen-saver starts
* Diagonal tearing may be noticed when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
* Video playback may look blocky when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
* Video Playback may display wrong colors and additional shadow images when cropping or expanding a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
* Building RPM packages for Mandriva may fail



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