Download Driver For ATi Linux Driver 8.40.4

Advanced Micro Devices released new display drivers for Linux the day before yesterday. They have given version number 8.40.4, can work on all cards from the Radeon 9500. The driver is suitable for both 32- and 64-bit environments, is suitable for XFree86 version 4.3 and X.org 6.7 through 7.2, and is 38.4MB in size. New in this release is TV-out support. Furthermore, the 64-bit version of the Linux Catalyst Control Center is now also included, which replaces the old FireGL Control panel. The rest of the changelog looks like this:

New Features

• TV Out Functionality
  TV out functionality is now available under the Linux operating system for ATI graphics cards that support TV Out (S-video, composite, and component video). The feature is part of the Catalyst Control Center LE and will provide a users with a variety of TV out adjustments.
  Note: TV Size and Position functions for ATI Radeon™ X1200 series of products and above are adjusted through the aticonfig command line.
• Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition
  This release of the Catalyst Linux introduces a 64-bit version of the Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.

Resolved Issues

• A black screen is no longer observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used.
• Connecting a component Video display device launching X-Server no longer results in X-Server failing to start and the display device displaying a black screen.
• The DRI no longer fails to initialize in the second server generation.
• Pressing the identify displays function no longer results in display device 1 and 2 being incorrectly identified.
• A Floating Point Exception error no longer occurs when launching amdcccle.

Known Issues

• Corruption may be observed with certain applications on some Linux distributions which enable the Composite extension by default, eg, RHEL 5. If you are observing application corruption, please disable the Composite extension.
• Using the xgl enabled x-server interface disables display switching hot plug support
• There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode.

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