AMD/ATI Catalyst 7.12 Released

JaDa · 2008-01-18 18:08:39

AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.1 Released
New Features
This release of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux driver introduces support for the following new features:
New Supported Operating Systems
This release of the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite introduces support for the following new operating systems
RedHat Enteprise Linux 5.1
RedHat Enteprise Linux 4.6
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
Resolved Issues
The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These include:
Corruption will no longer be noticed in the lower right corner of the display or on the mouse pointer after the system is running for a long period of time
Connecting a display device that supports 1680x1050 to a system running Linux will no longer result in a maximum display resolution of 1280x1024 only being available
Custom mode lines in xorg.conf will no longer be ignored by the fglrx driver
Suspending to RAM or DISK on kernel version 2.6.23 or later no longer fails
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These issues include:
On workstation hardware 3D applications will be corrupted if the screen width is not an integer multiple of 64 pixels, for example with a 1680x1050 wide screen display. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31720
There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26985
Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30687
Display flicker may be noticed when the gnome screen-saver starts
Diagonal tearing may be noticed when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
Video playback may look blocky when playing a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
Video Playback may display wrong colors and additional shadow images when cropping or expanding a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension
Building RPM packages for Mandriva may fail
For further information and general help on driver or software installation, game issues, and more, visit the ATI FAQ website.
Installing the AMD Proprietary Linux Software Driver
Installation information can be found at: ati.amd.com/install
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mouse256 · 2008-01-19 09:57:51

Custom mode lines in xorg.conf will no longer be ignored by the fglrx driver

Well finally, that took them about a year or so to fix this... It was even worse than being ignored, it made the whole computer freeze. Now I can try fglrx again instead of the r300 (they provide a bad video quality here)

zodmaner · 2008-01-19 11:41:21

They _still_ haven't fix the XVideo?

Still no fglrx for me, it seem. Anyway, thanks for the news, JaDa.

fettouhi · 2008-01-24 21:15:31

Are we going to the 8-01 release packaged for Arch Linux anytime soon?

Regards

André

Cerebral · 2008-01-24 21:35:39

I've been busy with work and burnt out (exhausted) when I get home the past week, so I've been sadly lagging on my packaging. I hope to get all my out-of-date packages, including catalyst, handled this weekend.

Misfit138 · 2008-01-24 22:19:07

I hope the ATI drivers evolve to the quality of Intel/nVIDIA asap. It would make buying a newer Thinkpad so much easier, since so many of them have an ATI chipset.
Anyway, progress seems to have been made, which is a good thing.
Hoping for the best..

JaDa · 2008-01-25 04:43:39

Cerebral wrote:

I've been busy with work and burnt out (exhausted) when I get home the past week, so I've been sadly lagging on my packaging. I hope to get all my out-of-date packages, including catalyst, handled this weekend.

Take your time
Few hours ago the kernel.org released the stable 2.6.24 kernel. In few days will then follow 2.6.24.1

and if you have read my email what I send to you, help me and I help you in the future

Cerebral · 2008-01-25 13:34:04

JaDa wrote:

and if you have read my email what I send to you, help me and I help you in the future

Yah, I got your email - I just haven't taken the time to write a thoughtful reply. I'll probably get to that today.

JaDa · 2008-01-26 07:54:07

Cerebral wrote:

JaDa wrote:
and if you have read my email what I send to you, help me and I help you in the future
Yah, I got your email - I just haven't taken the time to write a thoughtful reply. I'll probably get to that today.

Thank you for your help.

I tested my drivers with Radeon 9550, X300, X1300 on my testboxes and it works. I installed it on my stable box and it works also

here is a screenshot

szlend · 2008-02-15 21:25:40

@ JaDa

Does the driver work fine on Radeon 9550? I always get a black screen when exiting X... I can't believe they still didn't fix the ancient blackscreen bug. It just pisses me off because it makes my system totally useless... I'm currently running the open source "ati" driver. Although I don't get good performance from it, it's stable.. I'm never buying ATI's hardware again

gav616 · 2008-05-22 00:32:51

Catalyst 8.5

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/ … linux.html

New Features
This release of the Catalyst™ Linux software driver introduces Mipmap Detail, Catalyst A.I., and AA Filters in the 3D ORCA page of the Catalyst™ Control Center Linux Edition.
Resolved Issues
The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These include:
* Support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode is now available. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26985
* Unresolved symbols in Xorg log under RHEL 4u6 32 and 64 bit no longer occur. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34284
* The desktop background color is no longer displayed incorrectly when using xcommgr. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34285
* Change VT no longer fails when kernel module is not loaded. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34286
* Switching to the virtual terminal multiple times no longer results in X displaying corruption. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34287
* Catalyst Control Center: The Preference page is now localized for all supported languages. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34275
* The Linux kernel module is no longer installed to wrong location if the Linux kernel is updated. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34288
* Random system hangs no longer occur when calls to the ATI driver are made from Ring3. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34289
* X window no longer fails to respond when GoogleEarth is maximized. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34290
* A segmentation fault no longer occurs when running SPECViewperf on systems containing an ATI FireGL V5100 series product and running SUSE 10.3 x86. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34276
* Enabling Composite extension no longer displays 8x AA for graphic cards that do not support 8x AA under the Ubuntu 7.10 operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34291
* Display corruption is no longer noticed at logon when compiz is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34292
* Launching the glxgears application no longer results in segmentation faults. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34293
* GoogleEarth: Launching the application in horizontal mode on a system running X no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34293
* Specviewperf 8.1 64 bit version: Segmentation faults no longer occurs on IGP systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34294
* Maya 2008: Moving the render window no longer results in the operating system failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34295
* Glxgears corruption is no longer noticed in big desktop mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34296
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These issues include:
* Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
* Bandwidth corruption may be noticed when setting the desktop resolution to 2048x1536 on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 3200 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33499
* SECAM, NTSC or PAL signal changes when using aticonfig or Catalyst Control Center but does not apply to the TV display output. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34297
* Running X server without a window manager may result in the X server flashing green for a moment, going black, and the computer becoming unresponsive. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34299
* Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34298
* Connecting a CRT display device to a system containing an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 product may result in the display device flashing multiple times or failing to display an image when attempting to launch the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34300
* Corruption may be noticed when connecting a DFP display device to a system running X after setting the TV mode to 1080i. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34301
* Quake 3 Arena (demo): Segmentation faults may occur when attempting to play the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34302
* Specviewperf: Launching the application may result in the Linux operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34282
* Opening a terminal and running semi-automated DPPT tests via lnxtest.sh may result in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34283
* A segmentation fault may occur when running SPECViewperf on systems containing an ATI FireGL V5100 series product and running SUSE 10.3 x86. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34319
* FGL_GLXGEARS or GLXGEARS: X may fail to respond when launching either of the applications. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34316
* Maya 2008: Various comparison failures may be noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34277
* The X Server may fail to reset clearly when AIGLX is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34317
* DiscoveryStudio1.7: The print preview and save as functions may fail to work properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34278
* SPEC Viewperf 8.1: A performance drop may be noticed when running the application under Linux. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34279
* Maya2008: The hardware render buffer may fail to render/display the image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34280
* May2008: The hardware render Perl script may display an error message when rendering. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34281

Review
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … inux&num=1

Last edited by gav616 (2008-05-22 00:35:08)

Cerebral · 2008-05-22 03:15:50

I've gotta say, those are some of the best-written release notes I've seen on a Radeon driver release.

zenlord · 2008-05-22 08:14:47

@ Phoronix (link see previous posts) it looks like this driver will be developed rather fastly in the next releases (starting to show with this one), in shear contrast with the previous 3 or 4 releases.

Hooray foor AMD/Ati!

And about this new feature, 'DKMS' (Dynamic Kernel Module S...) - Will this mean that if you up-/downgrade your kernel, you won't have to rebuild the driver module anymore?

Zl.

Cerebral · 2008-05-22 11:26:38

zenlord wrote:

And about this new feature, 'DKMS' (Dynamic Kernel Module S...) - Will this mean that if you up-/downgrade your kernel, you won't have to rebuild the driver module anymore?

Only on distros that support DKMS. Since we don't do anything special around dkms, this won't be the case.

Misfit138 · 2008-05-22 13:04:07

I like DKMS, it seems like a terrific idea. I used it on PCLOS a couple of years back and it worked perfectly.
I wonder if it is largely reliable or if it has any limiting factors..time to google it.

zenlord · 2008-05-22 14:07:19

Cerebral wrote:

zenlord wrote:
And about this new feature, 'DKMS' (Dynamic Kernel Module S...) - Will this mean that if you up-/downgrade your kernel, you won't have to rebuild the driver module anymore?
Only on distros that support DKMS. Since we don't do anything special around dkms, this won't be the case.

So this is something that is not default in the kernel? Or is it kernel-independent (though nothing really is kernel-independent I presume).

What would be necessary to get DKMS working in Archlinux?

Zl.

Cerebral · 2008-05-22 14:27:08

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O … _Search=Go

It's independent of the kernel itself, afaik - there're packages in AUR for dkms-enabled modules already. I don't know much more about it than that though

gav616 · 2008-07-21 17:51:21

Catalyst 8.7

review
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n … &px=NjYwNQ

official release notes
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/ … linux.html

New Features
This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces product support for the following new operating systems:
* Ubuntu 8.04 production support
* SLED 10 sp2 production support
This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux also introduces early look support for the following new operating systems:
* Open Suse 11
* Redflag DT 7.0
Resolved Issues
The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These include:
* The display no longer fails to display an image after the installation of the Linux graphics driver. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35929
* Corruption is no longer noticed when switching from the laptop's display to the external CRT display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35953
* SECAM, NTSC or PAL signal changes when using aticonfig or Catalyst Control Center and now gets applied to the TV display output. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34297
* An X segmentation fault no longer occurs when launching SUZI/textured video. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35214
* Ubuntu 7.04: aticonfig --enable-monitor no longer results in X restarting. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35957
* Creating two successive connections no longer results in direct GL context to fail. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35215
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These issues include:
* DiscoveryStudio1.7: The print preview and save as functions may fail to work properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35219
* Quake 3 Arena (demo): Segmentation faults may occur when attempting to play the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34302
* Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
* Bandwidth corruption may be noticed when setting the desktop resolution to 2048x1536 on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33499
* Connecting a CRT display device to a system containing an ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X1600 product may result in the display device flashing multiple Verdana or failing to display an image when attempting to launch the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34300
* Setting the Overscan to an invalid value may result in segmentation faults. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35211
* An incorrect error message may be returned when applying an unsupported TV geometry in a console terminal. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35212
* An X segmentation fault may occur when launching SUZI/textured video. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35214
* The X Server may fail to reset clearly when AIGLX is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35217
* XServer may fail when playing media files with XVideo enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35968
* Setting the Overscan to an invalid value may result in segmentation faults. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35211
* Running Xtest may result in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35927
* Softimage XSI Ariane x64: A segmentation fault may occur when loading the application. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35963

Last edited by gav616 (2008-07-21 17:56:12)

gav616 · 2008-08-21 12:25:07

Catalyst 8.8

review
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a … tion&num=1

official release notes
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/ … linux.html

New Features
This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces product support for the following new operating systems:
* CrossFireX support
* Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support
* Support for new Linux operating systems
* ATI OverDrive™ Support for Linux
* ATI MultiView™
* Auto Detection and installation of distribution packaging
Resolved Issues
The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These include:
* Setting the Overscan to an invalid value no longer results in segmentation faults. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35211
* XServer no longer fails when playing media files with XVideo enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35968
* An incorrect error message is no longer returned when applying an unsupported TV geometry in a console terminal. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35212
* Connecting a CRT display device to a system containing an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 product no longer results in the display device flashing multiple times or failing to display an image when attempting to launch the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34300
* Quake 3 Arena (demo): Segmentation faults no longer occur when attempting to play the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34302
* OpenGL PBOs no longer fail to work with GL_RGB texture format
* Ubuntu 7.04: aticonfig --enable-monitor no longer results in X restarting
* Launching the Catalyst Control Center (Linux Edition) and clicking on the hyperlink located on the Welcome screen no longer results in the browser taking an extra long time to load the web page
* The initial RPM installation no longer results in an libGL.so, no such file or directory error
* The Linux installer now automatically determines the package to build
* The Linux kernel module is no longer installed to wrong location if the Linux kernel is updated
* Running X server without a window manager no longer results in the X server flashing green for a moment, going black, and the computer becoming unresponsive
* Creating two successive connections no longer results in direct GL context to fail. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35215
* Doom3: Connecting a secondary display device and configuring the game to launch on the secondary display device under x, no longer results the game failing to launch on the secondary display device
* A segmentation fault no longer occurs in kdesktop_lock application
* X no longer fails to start after installing the driver and configuring the driver using default values
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These issues include:
* DiscoveryStudio1.7: The print preview and save as functions may fail to work properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35219
* Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
* Bandwidth corruption may be noticed when setting the desktop resolution to 2048x1536 on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 3200 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33499
* An X segmentation fault may occur when launching SUZI/textured video. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35214
* The X Server may fail to reset clearly when AIGLX is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35217
* Running Xtest may result in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35927
* Softimage XSI Ariane x64: A segmentation fault may occur when loading the application. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35963
* The entire X desktop including the mouse cursor is choppy during playback of video files or suzi test app
* Some display resolution mode may fail to be available when using component video
* Connecting an HDMI display device may result in the audio failing to be heard
* Entering a standby state while running a 3D application may result in desktop corruption being noticed when resuming the system
* Logging out one of multiple users may result in X failing to display an image

Cerebral · 2008-08-21 14:41:35

You know, you CAN make a new thread for the new release (I would suggest in the Linux Discussion forum) if you want to discuss it, instead of continually bumping this very old topic about a very old version of the drivers.

arew264 · 2008-08-21 18:09:23

Nah, it's more fun if you just have a 100 page topic and people get confused while reading through for the current driver release.
Hey, we could make the ATI thread longer than the Hack the Phrak thread!

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