The ATI Linux display driver was released yesterday for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. Highlights of this release include support for the official X.Org 7.2 (the previous release supported only the X Org 7.2 RC2) and the 2.6.19 Linux kernel. The ATI Catalyst Linux software suite comes as RPM packages for XFree86 4.3 and X.org 6.8, as well as an installer executable. This latest version is designed to support the Red Hat Enterprise and Novell/SuSE Linux distributions, but can also be installed on a number of other Linux distributions.

Issues resolved in this release:

• Enabling Stereo on a FireGL V5000 no longer results in corruption being noticed on the X-Windows desktop.
• Running through the package generation installation of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver no longer results in the continue button remaining grayed out when selecting a package to be generated.
• The ATI Control Panel no longer gets installed when running through the Custom Installation and deselecting the Control Panel component.
• Connecting two display devices and switching the overlay to the secondary display device no longer causes aticonfig to fail.

Known issues of this release

• Attempting to install the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite on distributions that have updated certain 3D components outside of the stock XOrg 6.8.2 may result in the driver not initializing 3D applications properly.
• Loading the XVideo Extension on 64-bit Xorg 6.9+ systems causes the X Server to segfault on launch with Radeon X1K products.
• A system hang may occur when attempting to resume from hibernation mode.

For requirements and more information about this release please go here.

You can download ATI Linux Display Driver now from Softpedia.