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Release Notes - ATI Catalyst Linux Graphics Driver 9.2

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ATI Catalyst Linux Graphics Driver 9.2

Operating Systems Distributions Supported
The latest version of the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite is designed to support the following Linux distributions:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite
  • Novell/SuSE product suite
  • Ubuntu
System Requirements
Before attempting to install the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite, the following software must be installed:
  • XOrg 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 or 7.4
  • Linux Kernel 2.6 and above
  • glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
  • POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications
The ATI Catalyst Linux software suite no longer provides precompiled Kernel Modules; all installations require GCC compiler and kernel-headers or kernel- source in order to enable 2D and 3D acceleration. For best performance and ease of use, AMD recommends the following:
  • Kernel module build environment
    • 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 ATI Catalyst Linux driver to install and work properly:
    • XFree86-Mesa-libGL
    • libstdc++
    • libgcc
    • XFree86-libs
    • fontconfig
Note: The ATI Catalyst Linux software suite may install on a number of other Linux distributions. Refer to the Package Generation installation instructions for more information.

Note: AMD has contributed packaging scripts to allows creation of other packages, but does not necessarily test, verify or warrant the reliability. Currently Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite and Novell/SuSE product suite are supported Linux distributions.
  • freetype
  • zlib
  • gcc
Resolved Issues
The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These include:
  • Resolved visible corruption when starting MythTV frontend in full screen
  • Catalyst Control Center, disabling primary display and re-launching CCC caused a Floating Point Exception
  • Google Earth failed to start
  • With some ATI adapters the display port monitor was not detected after being hotplugged
  • Able to reboot or shutdown when ATI Catalyst Control Center is opened
  • Catalyst Control Center, displayed the wrong version using the Information/ Driver Version
  • No audio output was available through HDMI
  • Connecting both a CRT and DFP display device no longer results in the CRT failing to display an image if the DFP is disconnected and then reconnected to the system
  • Corruption is no longer seen on secondary display after enabling secondary display Big Desktop
  • Sections of the task bar no longer turn black when using the application 'Blender'
  • Enemy Territory Quake Wars v1.4, system no longer becomes intermittently unresponsive when game is run.
  • Some Open GL application no longer cause segmentation fault with Crossfire and dual head enabled
  • Maya crash fixed when using the following settings subinvisions Axis and subinvisions Height are set to 2000
  • Tearing no longer occurs during picture-in-picture playback of H.264,VC-1,MPEG2 files on SUSE
  • Playing AVI files with Mplayer in full screen no longer causes Mplayer to stop responding
  • Resolved, Video does not resize or may appear filled with pink/black when changing from a low to high resolution
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These issues include:
  • White screens may occur on the extended displays of a with a quad display configuration with 'Xinerama=on'
  • Quake4 cannot start after using the load default option
  • With both a DFP and CRT connected using the swap monitor option may cause the following error “KDE Panel - The KDE Crash Handler”
  • X may fail to start when the driver has been configured with the following command: aticonfig --force-monitor=nocrt1
  • RedHat 4.7 hot plugging a display may cause X to shutdown
  • Some display corruption may be observed while returning from XServer with two display connected
  • Catalyst Control Center, primary display manager may be missing on systems with dual head enabled
  • Some systems may fail to restore after returning from hibernation
  • Catalyst Control Center, the primary display is not identified when using the Identify Displays button
  • X-Server may become unresponsive when hot plugging the display after changing the resolution
  • Dual head mode, the mouse cursor cannot move to the secondary displays
  • The mouse cursor may fail to render when hot plugging a display in clone mode
  • Catalyst Control Center, on some systems X may fails to start when the resolution is set to less than 1680x1050 through displays manager
  • With some system configurations Catalyst Control Center may take up to 30 seconds to start
  • SUSE 11, No CrossFire confirmation is displayed when running Open GL applications
  • Running Specviewperf 9.0.3 in CrossFire mode may causes a segmentation fault and failures in log file.
  • When X is killed, the desktop background for the display:0.1 remains
  • Screensaver corruption may be observed with 'xinerama on' in multi-head configuration. On Novell's openSUSE, SLED and SLES operating systems running “sax2” or “sax2 -r” on the console overwrites the X.Org configuration file xorg.conf, reverting changes made by running “aticonfig --initial”. As a result subsequent X session may start up using the open source Radeon on X-Vesa graphics drivers instead of the proprietary ATI Linux Graphics Driver. Solution: Do not use Sax2 when the proprietary Linux Graphics Driver is installed. Instead configure all display parameters using the Catalyst Control Center--Linux Edition or the aticonfig command line interface.
  • On some CrossFire systems resizing Glxgreas may cause some screen corruption
  • Corruption may occur in Maya with a multview configuration using three displays
  • Flickering may occur with some screensaver and Flash movies when using either Normal or Extra Visual Effects.
  • X-Server may stop responding or shutdown when loading some Open GL applications on a secondary display
  • On some systems with RedHat 4.7 and Radeon X1800 the system may fail to start after installing the display driver
  • SUSE 10.3 32bit: The operating system may fail to respond when pressing “Ctrl+alt+F7/F8” to switch session when “fgl_glxgears” is running
  • Image rendering is not visible and only able to see the blank application window when moving the application a secondary display
  • Red Hat 5.2 32bit, KDM X windows may restart when user selects to “Start New Session” during user switch

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