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Release Notes - AMD Catalyst 11.8 Proprietary Linux x86/x64 Display Driver

AMD Catalyst 11.8 Proprietary Linux x86/x64 Display Driver

The AMD Catalyst installer for Linux makes installing the AMD Catalyst proprietary driver a much simpler and user friendly experience. The AMD Catalyst installer provides two modes of installation. The Install Driver option provides a simple driver installation process, and the Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package provides a simple way to generate a package for your distribution.

This release note provides information on the following:

Compatible Operating Systems
Minimum System Requirements
System Recommendations
Uninstalling the AMD Catalyst Proprietary Driver
Install Driver Option
Driver Update Notification
Linux Feedback Program

Note: To successfully install the AMD Catalyst proprietary driver, you should uninstall any third party graphics driver such as NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver for Linux currently on your system.

Note: AMD recommends that you create a central location for your AMD Catalyst proprietary driver downloads.

Note: AMD recommends you uninstall the AMD Catalyst proprietary driver for Linux before installing a newer version.

Compatible Operating Systems
The latest version of the AMD Catalyst proprietary driver is designed to support the following Linux distributions:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite
Novell/SuSE product suite
Ubuntu

Note: The AMD Catalyst driver for Linux may install on a number of other Linux distributions. Refer to the Package Generation installation instructions for more information.

Note: AMD contributed packaging scripts to help the creation of other packages, but does not test or verify these. Currently Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite and Novell/SuSE product suite support Linux distributions. Please contact Red Hat and Novell/SuSE directly with questions regarding their available support.

Note: AMD Events Daemon is not installed in /etc/init.d if using the Automatic Driver Installation Option. To install the Events Daemon for Red Hat and SuSE, use the Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package option to create packages for LGD installation. If there are no available packages for your distribution that install scripts for the daemon, refer to their respective user documentation on inserting and use of services/daemons. Examples scripts can be located in the default directory of "/usr/share/doc/ati/examples" after Automatic Driver Installation Option installation.

Minimum System Requirements
Before attempting to install the AMD Catalyst proprietary driver, the following software must be installed:

XOrg 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 or 7.6
Linux kernel 2.6 or above
glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications

Note: If a Linux 2.6.11 or newer kernel was built with CONFIG_AGP enabled, the kernel AGP frontend is required to load the fglrx kernel module. To identify whether your kernel was built with CONFIG_AGP enabled, look for CONFIG_AGP=y in the kernel config file, or if the 'agpgart' module is loaded.

System Recommendations
For optimal performance and ease of use, the following are available:

Kernel module build environment o Kernel source code include either the Kernel Source or Kernel Headers packages
The RPM utility should be installed and configured correctly on your system, if you intend to install via RPM packages

The following packages must be installed in order for the AMD Catalyst driver for Linux to install and work optimally:

XFree86-Mesa-libGL
libstdc++
libgcc
XFree86-libs
fontconfig
freetype
zlib
gcc

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