A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both the x86 and the x86_64 platform. In this release, the 3D ORCA page of the Catalyst Control Center has now the following new components: Catalyst A.I., Mipmap Detail and AA Filters. Moreover, the following issues were resolved in this release:

￭ In dual head mode, the second head supports video playback now.
￭ The strange symbols found in the Xorg log of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4u6 (both 32 and 64 bit versions) were fixed.
￭ Sometimes, when using xcommgr, the desktop background color was displayed inaccurately. The issue was fixed in this release.
￭ Changing VT will no longer fail when the kernel module of the ATI video driver is not loaded.
￭ The preferences page of the Catalyst Control Center now supports all the translations.
￭ When you update the Linux kernel, the ATI kernel module will no longer be installed on an incorrect location.
￭ X window corruption used to occur when launching and minimizing the Google Earth software. It was fixed.
￭ The system will no longer fail when moving the render window of Maya 2008 application.
￭ Glxgears works in big desktop mode now.

In order to achieve the best performance and ease of use, ATI/AMD recommends the following:

￭ The Linux kernel module build environment must include as follows: Kernel source code - either the Kernel Headers or Kernel Source packages.
￭ ISSE support must be enabled in your Linux kernel (this applies to Intel Pentium III and later CPUs only, and it is enabled by default on Linux kernel 2.4 and later).
￭ For users of RPM-based distributions: the rpm package must be installed and configured correctly.

Requirements:

￭ XOrg 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3
￭ Linux kernel 2.6 or higher
￭ glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
￭ POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications.

Supported operating systems:

￭ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6
￭ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
￭ Ubuntu 7.10
￭ Red Flag DT 6.0
￭ openSUSE 10.3

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

You can download the ATI/AMD Linux Display Driver 8.5 right now from Softpedia.