Download Driver For ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 8.12
AMD has released new Linux drivers for its ATI Radeon video cards. The download is just over 77MB in size and can be used for both 32-bit and 64-bit environments. Version 8.12 of Catalyst Linux Display Driver supports versions 6.7 through 7.4 of X.org, Linux kernel 2.6 and above, and glibc 2.2 and 2.3. Among other things, this release adds for Stream Computing Now, more information about the video card can be found in the Catalyst Control Center and the drivers can now run multiple Opengl applications at the same time. In addition, the release notes show the now known list of bug fixes and known issues:
New Features
- Support for New Linux Operating Systems
This release of ATi Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:
- Ubuntu 8.10 support – early look
This release of ATi Catalyst Linux introduces enhancements to the ATi Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Bus bandwidth and memory bandwidth information is now included in the Information Center.
With the release of ATi Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATi Stream technology for millions of ATi Radeon graphics processors worldwide
- ATi Stream computing harnesses the tremendous processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive computations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
- ATi Stream technology enables the hundreds of parallel Stream cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATi Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.
This release of ATi Catalyst Linux enables users to render multiple OpenGL applications across single/multiple displays.
- SurroundView can be enabled across a single discrete ATi Radeon graphics accelerator (ATi Radeon X1300 and higher product) and an AMD Integrated graphics product (ATi Radeon 1200 Series, ATi Radeon 3100 Series, ATi Radeon 3200 Series and, Radeon 3300 Series Integrated graphics)
Resolved Issues
- Primary display will remain blank after task switching between virtual terminals with dual displays running in Single Independent mode
- Executing Glxears may cause the operating system to stop responding
- Some systems may become unstable when running multiple OpenGL applications with an ATi Radeon HD 3200 Series adapter
- Catalyst Control Center fails to identify the correct display type connected
- Segmentation fault may occur when enabling bios version on systems with three or more adapters
- Executing ‘Glxgears’ may cause the operating system to stop responding
- CrossFire logo is not shown when playing 3D applications in full screen mode for 64bit Linux distributions
- Desktop corruption may occur when task switching from multiple X windows keeping one console in text mode
- Alientrap NEXUIZ,a delay may occurs when exiting the game
- X11Perf benchmark no longer causes a segmentation fault durring execution
- SUSE 10.3 32bit: Unable to set modes higher than 1600×1200 from command line
- SUSE 10.3 32bit: CRT screen corruption may occur after setting horizontal and vertical sync ranges
- System with multi adapters may experience problems installing the display driver
Known Issues
- Poor performance may intermittently be noticed when running GTKPerf on systems containing an ATi Radeon HD 38×0 or newer product
- SUSE 10.3 64bit: Connecting a DFP display device as a secondary display device may occasionally result in the secondary display device failing to display an image
- Red Hat 5.2 32bit, KDM X windows may restart when user selects to “Start New Session” during user switch
- System does not switch to “Optimal Performance” when running on AC power and returning from sleep
- This version of the Catalyst Control Center – Linux Edition shows the wrong version for the Catalyst driver, the version should be 8.12
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| Version number | 8.12 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Linux, Linux AMD64, Linux IA-64 |
| Website | AMD |
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| File size |
77.50MB |
| License type | Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.) |