14 DAY TRIAL // AMD has just announced the release of its newest graphics card drivers for Linux. ATI Catalyst 10.4 brings a number of fixes and also gets initial support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, due to be released later today. It’s available in package form for most of the popular commercial Linux distributions. The drivers are updated to version 8.723, in ATI Catalyst 10.4. As usual, AMD video drivers support both x86 and 64-bit architectures.
Highlights of ATI Catalyst 10.4:
· Preliminary support for Ubuntu 10.04; · Color gamma value changes are now remembered properly and applied when restarting X; · The system now comes out of hibernation/suspend mode properly; · Running OpenGL applications in CrossFire mode no longer causes flickering corruption; · The DisplayPort display now lights up when hot-plugged on RHEL 4.8; · More than four independent desktops can now be enabled on SUSE 11.1.
Supported operating systems:
· Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) suite; · Novell/SuSE Linux product suite; · Ubuntu Linux (including 10.04).
Requirements:
· XOrg 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 or 7.5; · Linux kernel 2.6 or above; · glibc version 2.2 or 2.3; · POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is needed for 3D applications; · You need all of these packages before installing: XFree86-Mesa-libGL, libstdc++, libgcc, XFree86-libs, fontconfig, freetype, zlib and gcc; · For the best experience, you should also have: the kernel module build environment, either the sources or the headers, and, if you plan to use the RPM packages, you need to make sure the RMP utility is working properly.
Plenty of known issues remain unfixed in this latest release of the ATI Catalyst drivers. You should check them out before upgrading. Known issues and other info are available in the release notes.
The AMD/ATI Catalyst 10.4 Linux video drivers are available for download here on Softpedia.