Download Driver For ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 9.3

AMD has released new Linux drivers for its ATI Radeon video cards. The download is almost 81MB in size and can be used for both 32bit and 64bit environments. Version 9.3 of the Linux Display Driver supports versions 6.8 through 7.4 of X.org, Linux kernel 2.6 and above, and glibc 2.2 and 2.3. This release adds support for new Linux distributions, includes a newer version of the Display Library SDK, and improves the display device property page in the Catalyst Control Center. In addition, the release notes show the usual list of bug fixes and known issues:

New Features

• This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:
  • RedFlag DT 6.0 sp2 production support
  • RedFlag DT 7.0 support (early look)
  • SLED and SLES 11 support (early look)
• New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
  • AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators
  • The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux – 32 and 64 bit variants
  • The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications – samples are provided within the SDK
  • The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site
• ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Display Device property page enhancement
  This release of ATI Catalyst Linux enables users to configure new display settings within the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.
  • HDTV mode support (720p, 1080i, 1080p, and custom) for digital displays
  • Color temperature controls for digital displays
  • Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast color controls for digital displays
  • Digital display controls (Overscan support, HDMI settings, DVI settings) OpenGL support for Compositing managers
  • Added support for the use of OpenGL clients under compositing environments such as compiz and kwin as found in Ubuntu and SuSE

Resolved Issues

• When X is killed, the desktop background no longer displays :0.1 remains
• Catalyst Control Center: Primary display manager no longer missing on systems with dual head enabled
• TV screen corruption no longer visible when TV standards aspect is set
• Display ports now detects properly with XRANDR for specific ASICs
• Catalyst Control Center: X no longer fails when the resolution is set to less than 1680×1050 through displays manager
• [SUSE11-64] X-Server will start properly when the driver is installed using RPM method
• The external LCD no longer displays garbage when pressing Fn+F4
• The internal LCD will no longer move with touchpad after pressing Fn+F4
• Video playback now functions properly after resuming from S3/S4 hibernation

Known Issues

• Resuming from sleep the display connected to add-on card remains off in some dualhead mode configurations
• System may become unresponsive when toggling between virtual terminals in multihead configuration with application running
• With both a DFP and CRT connected using the swap monitor option may cause the following error “KDE Panel – The KDE Crash Handler”
• [SUSE 11 64bit] CenterMode may fail to take effect on some ASICs
• Error may occur while setting the TV geometry
• Catalyst Control Center: Default button might not work properly for Warning Dialogue in preferrence page under specific conditions
• Starting X with a second hotplugged display may cause segmentation fault
• TV screen corruption may be visible while starting the X-server on some ASICs
• Stopping X in dual-head mode may cause segmentation fault
• Catalyst Control Center: Gamma values ​​might not be maintained for color channels
• With both DP and CRT connected, starting X-Server in big desktop mode may cause the DP display to go off and on, for every few seconds
• [Ubuntu-8.10] CRT might be shown as connected in single mode DFP connection
• Error may be reported in dmesg running 3D apps for specific systems
• Catalyst Control Center: Incorrect formats are listed in HDTV Support page