Download Driver For ATi Linux Driver 8.25.18

ATi has released new display drivers for Linux and assigned them number 8.25.18. They can do their job on all maps from the Radeon 8500 and are available for a 32-bit and 64-bit environment as a closed source driver. This driver finally adds support for Xorg version 7.0 and also enables Display Power Management Signaling. In addition, a number of FireGL cards can now also be used under Linux and the necessary bugs have been fixed. The full changelog looks like this:

New Features

• New Product Support
  • FireGL V7350
  • FireGL V7300
  • FireGL V7200
  • FireGL V5200
  • FireGL V3400
  • FireGL V3350
  • FireGL V2200
• Xorg 7.0 Support
• Display Power Management Signaling Support

Resolved Issues

• Running two X servers simultaneously no longer results in the system failing to respond.
• X Server no longer fails to load when using an ATI Radeon X1x00, 512MB product with certain motherboards.
• Toggling between console mode and X Server graphical mode no longer results in a system hang.
• Executing the command aticonfig –tv-format-type=NTSC-M no longer results in NTSC-M being detected as an invalid TV standard.
• The option –get-supported for the ATI installer has been replaced by the option –listpkg.
• User page lock is no longer available for AGP products resulting in a number of options (–agpl, –agp-locked-userpages, –agplock, –iagp, and –internal-agp) being removed from aticonfig and being replaced by the option –locked-userpages.
• Attempting to enable clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in the secondary display device failing to activate when using the ATI Control Panel.
• Using aticonfig –resolution to configure the display resolution no longer results in the user defined resolution failing to take effect.
• The software driver now supports Linux kernels that have NUMA support enabled on x86_64 machines.
• A segmentation fault no longer occurs when attempting to initialize an incomplete X Server configuration file using aticonfig -f.
• aticonfig –initial now fills in the VendorName and ModelName sections of the X Server configuration file for increased compatibility for SuSE’s SaX2.

Known Issues

• Attempting to install the ATI Proprietary Linux driver on distributions that have updated certain 3D components outside of the stock XOrg 6.8.2 may result in the driver not initializing 3D applications properly.
• TV display is corrupt after switching resolutions.
• TV Out is currently not supported on the ATI Radeon X1x00 products.
• A system hang may occur when attempting to resume from hibernation mode.

[break]The following downloads are available:
ATi Driver Installer version 8.25.18 for 32-bit version of Linux
ATi Driver Installer version 8.25.18 for 64-bit version of Linux[break]