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 8.6 introduces support for YUY2 and UYVY pixel format, which will provide interleaved stream support for the MythTV and TVTime video playback programs. The following are some of the important issues resolved in this release:

￭ an Enemy Territory: Quake Wars issue. Corruption will no longer appear in the demo version of the game;
￭ the Maya 2008 bug, which displayed an incorrect colormap for texture selector, was fixed;
￭ Segmentation faults for the Quake 3 Arena demo were resolved;
￭ the Quake3 display resolution issues were fixed;
￭ the bandwidth corruption for ATI Radeon HD 3200 cards, when the resolution was set to 2048x1536, was fixed;
￭ the Xv extension issue on MPlayer was resolved;
￭ the Glxgears corruption that appeared in big desktop mode was fixed.

For a complete list of changes, 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 8.6 right now from Softpedia.