Download Driver For ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 9.12

AMD has released new Linux drivers for its ATI Radeon video cards. The download is 83MB in size and can be used for both 32bit and 64bit environments. Version 9.12 is compatible with Radeon HD2400 and FireGL V3600 and above. Other system requirements are versions 6.8 through 7.4 of X.org, Linux kernel 2.6 and glibc versions 2.2 or 2.3. In this release, support has been added for the latest versions of the SUSE and RedFlag distributions, and some improvements have been made to the Catalyst Control Center. We also find some bug fixes, followed by a number of problems that are already known, but which the techs at AMD are still working on:

New Features

• Support for New Linux Operating Systems
  • Red Flag DT6.0 SP3
  • SLED and SLES 10SP3
• ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Displays pages: user interface enhancements
  This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for a number of new display features found in the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition, highlights include:
  • CRT/VGA settings
    • New Size and Position page
    • New HDTV page
  • TV settings
    • New option for “Automatic setting for Size and Position adjustment”
    • New image quality settings: “flicker removal” and “S-Video/Composite sharpness”
  • Component Video settings
    • New Scaling Options page – new Overscan / Underscan controls
    • New custom mode support for 576 modes
  • Support for display projectors
    • Enables quick display configuration of display projectors

Resolved Issues

• Desktop resolution changes through Catalyst Control Center are now applied on restart of X
• Catalyst Control Center: Display is now mapped to the correct desktop/screen after X restarts
• In dual-head mode, performing a XRandR command (rotation or screen resolution change) on screen 1 no longer cause both screens to display corruption

Known Issues

• Catalyst Control Center: disabling one of the displays on a multi-monitor configuration, may become enabled on Xserver restart
• On some configurations the Operating System may become unresponsive when switching between virtual terminals
• Catalyst Control Center: on some systems configurations setting a customized modes may not be applied
• Some Open GL applications may show corruption when running with CrossFire enabled and Anti-Alias ​​16x
• Some systems may become unresponsive during video play back with certain Dual Head configurations on Ubuntu 9.04 x86 64bit
• Catalyst Control Center: on some systems setting a customized modes may not be applied
• Catalyst Control Center: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 – 32 system may stop responding after selecting “Detect Displays button” and hot-plugging a HDMI display
• CrossFire may fail to be enabled on some Ubuntu 9.10 configurations with ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series adapter
• X may stop responding after executing multiple Xserver generations with Xinerama enabled on Ubuntu 9.10
• Catalyst Control Center: Super Anti-Aliasing (16x) mode may not be available on some display adapters when Crossfire is enabled
• Catalyst Control Center: some system configurations may stop responding when display scaling has been enebled
• In some Dual-Head mode configurations a segmentation fault may occur when X is stopped
• [Ubuntu 9.04] Some video adapters may stop video output signals when monitor has been powered off and powered on again