The ATI Linux display driver was released yesterday for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release introduces support for the ATI Xpress 1250 IGP for AMD based motherboards. However, the ATI Xpress 1250 IGP product for both AMD and Intel motherboards currently does not support Hardware Accelerated Video. 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 latter 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:

• A system hang no longer occurs when attempting to resume from hibernation mode;
• Loading the XVideo Extension on 64-bit Xorg 6.9+ systems no longer results in the X Server segfaulting when launching (this issue was known to occur with Radeon X1K products);
• Running aticonfig--dtop=(horizontal|vertical) no longer results in clone mode being activated when attempting to enable big desktop mode;
• Running through the un-install of the Linux graphics driver no longer results in the fglx and ati folders failing to be removed.

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;
• Enabling stereo may result in rectangular corruption in X Windows on the screen's right hand side.

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

You can download ATI Linux Display Driver now from Softpedia.