Download Driver For ATi Catalyst Linux Display Driver 7.11

Cristan correctly pointed out that AMD not only released its Catalyst 7.11 for Windows XP and Vista this week, but also has one available for Linux. For the first time, the version number is synchronized with the Windows version, a number that indicates the year and month of release. Version 7.11 of the Linux driver can handle versions 6.7 through 7.3 of X.org, Linux Kernel 2.6 and above, and glibc 2.2 or 2.3. Linux Kernel 2.4 and XFree86 4.3 are no longer supported. The last version to do that was version 8.42.3. The release notes of Catalyst Linux Display Driver 7.11 look like this:

New Features

• This release of the ATi Catalyst Linux driver introduces early-look support for the following new operating systems:
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6 (tested Snapshot 6)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (tested Snapshot 7)
  • Ubuntu 7.10
  • RedFlag 6.0 DT (tested with RC)
  • OpenSUSE 10.3 (tested with RC1)

Resolved Issues

• Launching a new terminal un RHEL5 32bit version no longer results in an inconsistent background colors appearing each time the window is minimized and maximized
• The kernel module is now working on kernel version 2.6.23
• An error message no longer appears during installation if dash is used as /bin/sh

Known Issues

• There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26985
• Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
• A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30687
• An error message appears during installation if dash is used as /bin/sh. A topic number is not available for this issue
• Several distribution-specific packaging scripts are not up-to-date in this release. In particular packaging for 64-bit Ubuntu versions is known to be broken. A topic number is not available for this issue

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