Thursday, February 17th 2005

New ATI Linux Drivers

Yesterday ATI released new Linux Drivers for their whole video card range bringing the version number to 8.10.19.

System Requirements:
  • POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D apps
  • glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
  • Linux kernel 2.4 or higher
  • XFree86 version 4.1, 4.2, or 4.3
Fixed:
  • Starting X on a DVI display no longer results in noisy or flickering output with some displays
  • The Monitor autodetect no longer finds a phantom CRT display if none is connected either RADEON X800, X700, X300, or FireGL V5100, and V5000
  • The ATI Proprietary Linux driver now works with Apple Cinema display flat panels in single link mode
  • fglrxconfig now produces a proper xorg.conf X Server configuration file
  • Running certain 3D applications no longer result in system hangs on x86_64 systems with RADEON 9100/8500 series or FireGL 8800 installed
  • Kernel Module Driver compile support for Kernel 2.6.10
  • XVideo support now available in dualhead configuration
  • 3D geometry corruption no longer occurs with Celestia and other 3d apps
  • A blank screen or X failing to load and returning to the console no longer occurs under X.Org 6.8 when using the config file generated by fglrxconfig
  • 64 Bit systems with 4 or more GB of RAM no longer hang the system while loading the X Server
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