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September 30th, 2011, 17:01 GMT · By Marius Nestor

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New ATI Video Driver Fixes GNOME 3 Issues

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AMD announced two days ago, September 28th, the immediate availability for download of the AMD Catalyst 11.9 video driver for Linux platforms. The new AMD Catalyst 11.9 driver fixes a few GNOME 3 issues, but most of them are still there. Moreover, it appears that many KDE SC 4.x users are having lots of problems with the new driver. As the GNOME 3.2 desktop environment has just been released, AMD did not had the chance to test the new AMD Catalyst 11.9 video driver on it. Therefore, users will encounter various issues. The AMD Catalyst 11.9 video driver has support for the following Linux-based operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux, openSUSE Linux and Ubuntu Linux. Download the ATI/AMD Linux Display Drivers 11.9 right now from Softpedia.
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Comment #1 by: v4mpiro on 01 Oct 2011, 07:24 UTC	reply to this comment
Incredible situation! I waited 2 months the release of these drivers 'cause i wanted to use Gnome Shell. It's unusable even with 11.9. This is the last time i buy an ATI product. Only Nvidia now.

Comment #1.1 by: neruson on 01 Oct 2011, 18:39 GMT

uhh... the gnome shell works fine with the open source ati driver...

Comment #1.2 by: Steffen on 03 Oct 2011, 11:27 GMT

It is amazing how a product used by hundreds of thousands (just looking at the popcon.debian.org stats for the Radeon Open Source driver and adding numbers from Ubuntu) can be supported so badly on the software side. The NVidia drivers install much better - for a decade now.

AMD are losing me as a customer. And they losing me twice this way, since for some weird reason NVidia is commonly sold with Intel processors. 100 Dollars/Euros more or less is not so ultimately important, given how many endless hours one sits in front of those machines. Graphics need to just work, work, work ... and compute ... and install smoothly.

Comment #2 by: rawler on 01 Oct 2011, 18:44 UTC	reply to this comment
AMD, please throw your weight and your specifications behind Gallium. Thank you.

Comment #3 by: tek on 03 Oct 2011, 01:41 UTC	reply to this comment
"download of the ADM Catalyst 11.9 video driver for Linux platforms".... Shouldn't that read: "download of the AMD Catalyst 11.9 video driver for Linux platforms"

Comment #4 by: Ollie on 04 Oct 2011, 06:48 UTC	reply to this comment
Rainbow problem is still there.

Comment #5 by: Rosita on 17 Oct 2011, 14:15 UTC	reply to this comment
What the heck? AMD could not test against gnome 3.2, yes, but the all-new 11.9 catalyst does not function with ANY version (not even earlier) of gnome 3. AMD is * on Linux, that's the ugly truth.

Comment #6 by: nico on 28 Nov 2011, 06:18 UTC	reply to this comment
Tried ati-driver-installer-11-11-x86.x86_64.run with Gnome 3, no luck. Contacted AMD support (not sure if they will read this blog post).

Comment #7 by: Jansen on 24 May 2012, 15:52 UTC	reply to this comment
AMD also loses me as a customer now... how could they compete in the market if they loses both Windows and Linux customers?

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