14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced last evening, September 15th, yet another improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. This release brings early look support for RHEL 6.
ATI Catalyst 10.9 introduces initial support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 operating system. The software version was updated to 8.771. Below are the highlights of ATI Catalyst 10.9:
· Fixed a system crash when fgl_glxgears was launched, if desktop effects and anti-aliasing were enabled; · Fixed hardware playback functionality in SUSE 11.1; · Fixed Mozilla Firefox issues in OpenSuSE 11.3, when the webpages were scrolled by dragging the scrollbar; · Fixed hot-plugged DFP display issues in clone mode, if a DP display was connected to the adapter.
Supported operating systems:
· Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) suite; · Novell/SUSE Linux product suite; · Ubuntu Linux (including 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx).
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.
As usual, a lot of known issues remain unresolved in this release. Check them out here.
Detailed installation instructions can be found here, in PDF format.
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