A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both the x86 and the x86_64 platform. ATI Catalyst 8.7 introduces support for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2. It also introduces early support for openSUSE 11 and Redflag DT 7.0. The following are some of the important issues resolved in this release:

￭ The display will no longer fail to show an image after the ATI driver installation;
￭ When switching from the notebook's display to an external CRT monitor, corruption will no longer be noticed;
￭ When using the Catalyst Control Center or the aticonfig utility, the NTSC, PAL or SECAM signal changes and gets applied to the TV output;
￭ The issue that caused the X server to restart with the aticonfig --enable-monitor option on Ubuntu 7.04 was fixed;
￭ Direct GL context will no longer fail when you create two successive connections.

For known issues of this release, please take a look at the official release announcement!

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

￭ The Linux kernel module build environment must include 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, since 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 8.04
￭ Red Flag DT 6.0
￭ openSUSE 10.3

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

You can download the ATI/AMD Linux Display Driver 8.7 right now from Softpedia.