· RHEL 5.4 support
· openSUSE 11.2 early look support
New Features:
· RedFlag DT 7.0 production support
Resolved Issues:
· X segmentation fault no longer occurs after applying reflections or rotations on some systems that support Xrandr 1.2 or higher
· Catalyst Control Center hot plugging a secondary display no longer causes screen corruption in clone mode
· Monitor are now disabled after removing the secondary display when system is in standby
· Some systems now report CrossFire adapters available during driver re-install
· On some multi-monitor configurations disabling one display no longer causes both displays to become disabled
· X Server does not intermittently fail to start on some multi adapter configurations
· Executing xrandr --prop no longer causes Ubuntu 9.04 X Server to stop responding
· [Ubuntu 9.04] Segmentation fault no longer occurs with X server Xinerama is enabled
Resolved Issues:
The following section provides a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These include:
· Catalyst Control Center, the primary display is not identified when using the Identify Displays button
· Error may occur while setting the TV geometry
· Game corruption might be observed in full screen when 2 monitors are connected and
· RandR 1.2 is enabled
· TV screen corruption may be visible while starting the X-server on some ASICs
· Detecting second display using amdccle "Detect Display" button may result in error and will require a relaunch to detect both displays properly
· [SUSE 11.X x86] System may fail to respond when executing multiple server generations
Known Issues:
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI CatalystTM Linux software suite. These issues include:
· System may become unresponsive when toggling between virtual terminals in multi-head configuration with application running
· Starting X with a second hotplugged display may cause segmentation fault
· Video playback may exhibit corruption when desktop effects are enabled and
· Composite is not explicitly disabled
· [SUSE11] The display might not turn off while disabling the output
· [Ubuntu 8.10] System may become inoperative when starting X on surround view system
· The engine clock and memory clock values may be incorrectly reported by ATI CAL as 0MHz
· This release of ATI CatalystTM Linux introduces support for the following new operating
system:
· RHEL 5.3 production support
· Ubuntu 9.04 support (early look)
Resolved Issues:
The following section provides a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI CatalystTM Linux software suite. These include:
· Stopping X in dual-head mode no longer causes segmentation fault
· [SUSE 10.1] Indirect rendering no longer causes failures
· Catalyst Control Center: Default button now works properly for Warning Dialogue in preferrence page
· Catalyst Control Center: Gamma values now maintained for color channels
· Catalyst Control Center: Formats are now listed properly in HDTV Support page
· Playing video after resuming from S3/S4 no longer causes the system to stop functioning
· Errors are no longer reported in dmesg when running 3D applications
Support for New Linux Operating Systems:
· 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 CatalystTM 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:
· The following section provides a brief description of resolved issues with the latest
version of the ATI CatalystTM Linux software suite. These include:
· 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 1680x1050 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
· Resolved visible corruption when starting MythTV frontend in full screen
· Catalyst Control Center, disabling primary display and re-launching CCC caused a Floating Point Exception
· Google Earth failed to start
· With some ATI adapters the display port monitor was not detected after being hotplugged
· Able to reboot or shutdown when ATI Catalyst Control Center is opened
· Catalyst Control Center, displayed the wrong version using the Informa- tion/Driver Version
· No audio output was available through HDMI
· Connecting both a CRT and DFP display device no longer results in the CRT failing to display an image if the DFP is disconnected and then reconnected to the system
· Corruption is no longer seen on secondary display after enabling secondary display Big Desktop
· Sections of the task bar no longer turn black when using the application 'Blender'
· Enemy Territory Quake Wars v1.4, system no longer becomes intermittently unresponsive when game is run.
· Some Open GL application no longer cause segmentation fault with Crossfire and dual head enabled
· Maya crash fixed when using the following settings subinvisions Axis and subinvisions Height are set to 2000
· Tearing no longer occurs during picture-in-picture playback of H.264,VC-1,MPEG2 files on SUSE
· Playing AVI files with Mplayer in full screen no longer causes Mplayer to stop responding
· Resolved, Video does not resize or may appear filled with pink/black when changing from a low to high resolution
· Support for New Linux Operating Systems
· New Display Enhancement
· ATI CrossFireXTM Enhancement
