June 17th, 2011New Features:
· AMD Steady Video
· Steady Video is currently an AMD exclusive feature based on AMD APP Technology
· By applying advanced algorithms behind the scenes, users do not have to deal with shaky or unstable video ever again!
· Capabilities scale with hardware and are end user controlled
· Image Stabilization brought to YouTube!
· Decode Acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content
· AMD has enabled decode acceleration of MPEG-4 part 2 content in Microsoft video player applications (through MFT support) for all AMD Radeon 6000 Series
Performance Enhancements:
· Performance gains in Crysis of up to 7% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.
· Performance gains in F1 2010 of up to 8% in DirectX 11 mode on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
· Performance gains in Far Cry 2 of up to 5% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
· Performance gains in HAWX of up to 8% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series products in single and Crossfire configurations.
· Performance gains in the Unigine OpenGL tests of up to 10% on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series single card configurations.
September 16th, 2010· RHEL 6 early look support
· System no longer fails while launching fgl_glxgears window when Anti-Aliasing and
· Desktop Effects are enabled
· [SUSE 11.1] Hardware playback now functions properly
· [OpenSuSE 11.3] Corruption no longer visible on Firefox while scrolling the window
· by dragging the scrollbar
· [SUSE 11.2] With a DP display connected to the adapter, a hot-plugged DFP display
· will now light up properly in clone mode
August 26th, 2010· Support for New Linux Operating Systems
· OpenGL ES 2.0 support
· SLED/SLES 11 SP1 production support
· ATI CatalystTM 10.8 delivers full support for OpenGL ES 2.0 specification
· Enables 3D accelerated graphics within a web browser that supports OpenGL ES 2.0
· Supported on Linux distributions
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:
· Disabling the primary display in clone/dual-head mode no longer causes Catalyst
· Control CenterTM not to launch properly after X restart
· Desktop arrangement area no longer appears empty when Catalyst Control CenterTM
· is relaunched after disabling or hot-unplugging the secondary display
· X-server no longer fails when launching fullscreen OpenGL application with
· CrossFireTM enabled and secondary display selected for accelerated display
· Catalyst Control CenterTM will now launch properly under a 2 Gemini ATI RadeonTM
· HD 5900 Series multi-adapter configuration
· "Glxgears/fgl_glxgears" full screen application no longer remain on the desktop after
· they are closed using X button
· 6% performance drop is no longer observed while running fgl_glxgears and glxgears
· on specific cards
July 26th, 2010· Ubuntu 10.04 production support
· openSUSE 11.3 early look support
· ATI CatalystTM 10.7 delivers support for ATI Eyefinity technology under all
· supported Linux distributions
· Applying display rotation using CatalystTM Control Center or XRandR no longer
· causes display to turn blank with mouse cursor
· Disabling the primary display in clone/dual-head mode no longer causes CatalystTM
· Control Center not to launch after X restart
· CrossFireTM can now be enabled properly on the first Gemimi card under a 2 Gemini
· multi-adapter configuration
· Xserver no longer fails when applying "Maintain Aspect Ratio" option from GPU
· scaling at maximum resolution
· [SUSE] Desktop corruption no longer visible after applying rotation using CatalystTM
· Control Center and restarting X
· Enabling a second ASIC without a monitor connected no longer causes black screen
· and X window not launching when startx is executed
· [Ubuntu 10.04] X segmentation fault no longer occur at startup on multi-ASIC
· systems
· CatalystTM Control Center: Gamma control changes no longer affect the wrong
· display in clone mode
· Switching to clone mode by pressing Fn+F4 now functions properly after connecting
· an external VGA monitor
· X-window no longer fails with some ATI card plugged in NV's C51 IGP board
June 17th, 2010· RHEL 5.5 production support
· ATI CatalystTM 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI RadeonTM
· HD 5000 Series
· ATI CatalystTM 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI RadeonTM
· HD Series
· ATI CatalystTM 10.6 delivers a new architecture for 2D acceleration. The new 2D
· architecture delivers fast windows resizing with Compiz/Visual-Effects and general 2D
· performance improvements in all AMD supported Linux distributions.
· "Xorg -probeonly" no longer causes screen corruption or the system to fail to respond
May 27th, 2010New features:
· SLED/SLES 11 SP1 early look support
Resolved Issues:
· Enabling Hybrid CrossfireTM no longer causes dmesg to report an error after starting X
· Screen no longer turns blank if the other monitor is unplugged in dual-head mode
· [RHEL 5.4 x86_64] Kernel panic no longer occurs during system hibernation with PCI cards
· [PowerXpress] Turning off the discrete card no longer causes the system to report a failure 1080i30 and 1080i25 HDTV modes can now be applied for HDMI/DVI/DP displays
· The primary display will now have the correct default resolution when multiple monitors, with different size and resolutions, are connected dmseg will no longer report an error during hibernation
· Resuming from sleep no longer causes the display number overlay to become corrupted
March 29th, 2010New features:
· RHEL 5.5 early look support
Resolved Issues:
· [RHEL] System now resumes into X window properly and no longer hangs during exit on BigDesktop configuration
· [Catalyst Control Center] Customized modes under the HDTV page will now apply properly
· [Redhat 64-bit] X-server now launches properly on systems configured with more than 4 GPUs
· [RHEL] Restarting X-server after applying "HDTV" modes no longer causes the screen to go blank
· Corruption no longer visible on second screen after launching fullscreen 3D game in Dual-Head mode
· TV horizontal size change will now be applied when utilizing XRandR to change TV geometry
· Catalyst Control Center will now recognize hotplugged external display without restarting X
· Running fullscreen OGL applications no longer causes X to switch from Dual-Head mode to Clone mode with game launching on both primary and secondary displays
January 28th, 2010· Ubuntu 9.10 production support
· [ATI CatalystTM Control Center] Display Manager Properties tab now properly shows
· a single mode instead of multiple modes when big desktop mode is enabled
· The operating system will no longer fail when switching between virtual desktops
· [RHEL 5.4 32-bit] [ATI CatalystTM Control Center] System now functions properly
· after selecting "Detect Displays" button and hot-plugging a HDMI display
· [Ubunut 9.10] X no longer fails after executing multiple Xserver generations with
· Xinerama enabled
· Hotplugging a HDMI monitor or toggling between LCD and HDMI no longer causes
· the system to stop responding
December 17th, 2009Support for New Linux Operating Systems:
· RedFlag DT6.0 SP3
· SLED and SLES 10SP3
ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition:
· CRT/VGA settings
· New Size and Position page
· New HDTV page
· TV settings
· New option for “Automatic setting for Size and Position adjustment”
· New image quality settings: “flicker removal” and “S-Video/Composite sharpness”
· Component Video settings
· New Scaling Options page – new Overscan / Underscan controls
· New custom mode support for 576 modes
· Support for display projectors
· Enables quick display configuration of display projectors
Resolved Issues:
· Desktop resolution changes through Catalyst Control Center are now applied on restart of X
· Catalyst Control Center: Display is now mapped to the correct desktop/screen after X restarts
· In dual‐head mode, performing a XRandR command (rotation or screen resolution change) on screen 1 no longer cause both screens to display corruption
November 18th, 2009· RHEL 5.4 support
· openSUSE 11.2 early look support
July 24th, 2009New 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
May 20th, 2009Resolved 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
April 18th, 2009· 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
March 31st, 2009Support 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
February 20th, 2009· 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
November 14th, 2008· Support for New Linux Operating Systems
· New Display Enhancement
· ATI CrossFireXTM Enhancement
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