Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, announced on November 17th a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary display driver for Linux users, for both x86 and x86_64 architectures. The ATI Catalyst 9.11 suite updates the software to version 8.671 and brings production support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and initial support for openSUSE 11.2. Among the resolved issues in ATI Catalyst 9.11, we can mention:

· For Ubuntu 9.04 users, the animated busy mouse cursor flickering issue, in Clone mode, has been resolved;
· Resolved an issue on SUSE 11.1, in which, when the secondary display was unplugged, the main display became corrupted and blank;
· Virtual Terminal switch and display hot-plugging issues were resolved;
· Fixed an issue when the machine became unstable and unresponsive when it was switched to DC (battery) mode, with CrossFire enabled and with programs running in fullscreen;
· Fixed a screen corruption when a flash video was playing in fullscreen mode, on a secondary display;
· Fixed a screen corruption when an OpenGL screensaver was running while the desktop effects were active.

A few other known issues remain unresolved for this release of the ATI Catalyst suite, including one for Ubuntu 9.04 users!

Requirements:

· X.Org 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 or 7.4;
· Linux kernel 2.6 or higher;
· glibc version 2.2 or 2.3;
· Support for POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) is necessary for 3D programs;
· The following packages should be installed on your system: XFree86-Mesa-libGL, libstdc++, libgcc, XFree86-libs, fontconfig, freetype, zlib and gcc.

Also, please note that 64-bit users must have the 32-bit libraries installed before executing/updating the driver! Moreover, a GCC compiler, kernel-headers and kernel-source are required to build the modules and to enable 2D and 3D acceleration.

Supported operating systems:

· Red Hat Enterprise Linux;
· Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux;
· openSUSE Linux;
· Ubuntu Linux.

Detailed installation instructions for the ATI Catalyst installer can be found in this PDF file.

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