Driver version: 8.561 NEW FEATURES: (1) Support for Ubuntu 8.10 (early look). (2) Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Information Center Enhancement. (3) ATI Stream Computing Support. ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Primary screen may stay blank after switching VT in dual-head mode. (2) Some systems may become unstable when running multiple OpenGL applications with an ATI Radeon HD 3200 Series adapter. (3) Catalyst Control Center fails to identify the correct display type connected. (4) CrossFire logo is not shown when playing 3D applications in full screen mode on 64bit Linux distributions. (5) Desktop corruption may occur when switching between multiple X sessions keeping one console in text mode. (6) SUSE 10.3 32bit: Unable to set modes higher than 1600x1200 from command line. (7) SUSE 10.3 32bit: CRT screen corruption may occur after setting horizontal and vertical sync ranges. (8) System with multi adapters may experience problems installing the display driver.

Driver version: 8.552 NEW FEATURES: (1) RHEL 4.7 support. (2) Display scaling to HDTV timings/resolutions. (3) Control Center option to display an ATI CrossFireX logo when ATI CrossFireX is enabled. (4) Xorg 7.4 (Xserver 1.5) support ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Automatic power state changes when unplugging or plugging AC power. (2) Segmentation fault in amdcccle when launched as root under SuSE 11. (3) Corruption when playing videos using XvMC with mplayer. (4) X startup failure in dual-head mode with only one monitor connected. KNOWN ISSUE: (1) Installing the driver on Ubuntu systems using the community-supported Ubuntu packaging mechanism leads to a failure to load the kernel module resulting in 3D acceleration being disabled. Please install this driver release using the interactive installer instead.

Driver version: 8.542 NEW FEATURES: (1) AMDTM CAL: Computer Abstraction Layer runtime and libraries support. (2) Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) X startup failure on Radeon X1xxx and later AGP cards. (2) Xserver crash after logging out multiple times. (3) Bad Xv video playback performance on AGP cards. (4) Artefacts left on the screen when quickly moving an Xv video window.

Driver version: 8.532 NEW FEATURES: (1) Production support for Red Flag DT6SP1 and OpenSUSE 11 ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Desktop corruption when using full screen Wine application. (2) Compilation issues against Linux kernel 2.6.26. (3) HDMI Audio support on Radeon HD 3100/3200 products. (4) X fails after driver install for Radeon HD 4870 and FireGL V7700. (5) Choppy playback during video playback. (6) Fatal error while restarting X, after resolution change in amdcccle. (7) Segmentation fault when running textured video.

Driver version: 8.522 NEW FEATURES: (1) CrossFireX support on RV770 with up to 2 ASICs. (2) Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support. (3) Production support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (4) Early look support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.7 (5) Autodetection and installation of distribution packages ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Segmentation faults when using invalid Overscan values. (2) X server failure when playing media files with XVideo enabled (3) Incorrect error message when applying unsupported TV geometry (4) Segmentation fault when playing Quake 3 Arena(demo).

Driver version: 8.512 NEW FEATURES: (1) Production support for SLED 10 SP2, Ubuntu 8.04 (2) Early look support for OpenSUSE 11, RedFlag DT 7.0 ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) SECAM, NTSC or PAL signal changes when using aticonfig or cccle were not applied to the TV display output. (2) Corruption when switching from laptop's display to CRT. (3) Segmentation fault when launching SUZI/textured video. (4) Direct GL context failure when creating two successive connections. (5) Ubuntu 7.04: aticonfig --enable-monitor no longer results in X restarting.

NEW FEATURES: (1) Dynamic Clock Gating, (2) Enhanced Support for OpenGL Development, (3) Dual Link Monitor Support, (4) Xinerama Support, (5) New X Server Configuration Utility. ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) The ATI Linux software driver installer now correctly identifies the XFree86 4.3.99 X server and (2) access to /proc/dri/0/* no longer results in an oops on kernels that have CONFIG_REGPARM enabled.

NEW FEATURES: (1) PowerPlay Support, (2)fgl_glxgears Update, (3) Initial Suspend and Resume Support. ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) a resolution for drmMap failures on 64bit NLD9 SP2 and 64bit Ubuntu Breezy distribution, resolving an issue that prevented 3D acceleration.

NEW FEATURES: (1) Linux users who are interested in being notified of the latest ATI Proprietary Linux Driver, can now subscribe to the Rich Site Summary/Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed at: www.ati.com/online/rss/atilinuxdriver.rss ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Kernel module compile issues with the stock 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 kernel are now resolved (2) Attempting to resume from system suspension no longer results in the system failing to respond.

NEW FEATURES: (1) ATI Linux Driver Installer now 50% smaller. (2) OpenGL 2.0 Support. ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) mode2 option in aticonfig now supported as documented (2) Starting X server when the virtual desktop size is set higher than the largest display mode available for the display device no longer results in fatal server error.

NEW FEATURES: (1) ATI Proprietary Linux Driver now supports Linux Kernel 2.6.15. ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Creating 22 or more display configuration mode lines in the X Server configuration file no longer results in a fatal server error.

NEW FEATURES: (1) New Product Support: ATI Radeon X800/X850 AGP products (2) Improved OpenGL 2.0 Interface Compliance (3) FSAA support for all Radeon 9500+ Consumer products

NEW FEATURES: (1) New Product Support: ATI Radeon and Mobility X1K Products (2) 3D Accelerated Video Playback for AVIVO cards on X.Org 6.9 ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Corruption in games based on Quake 3 Engine on ATI Radeon 8xxx/9000/9100/92x0 Products

NEW PRODUCT SUPPORT: FireGL V3300/V3400/V5200/V7200/V7300/V7350 NEW FEATURES: (1) Xorg 7.0 Support for Installer (2) Display Power Management Signaling Support Enabled By Default ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Running two X servers simultaneously no longer results in the system failing to respond (2) X Server no longer fails to load when using an ATI Radeon® X1x00, 512MB product with certain motherboards. (3) Toggling between console mode and X Server graphical mode no longer results in a system hang. (4) Various aticonfig changes and fixes (5) User page lock is no longer available for AGP products (6) The software driver now supports Linux kernels that have NUMA support enabled on x86_64 machines.

NEW FEATURES: (1) Hotplug Support for Digital Flat Panels (2) Thermal Event Power Management ISSUES RESOLVED: Aticonfig related issues: (1) Spurious `Option “(null)”` is no longer written to the X Configuration file (2) Using Resolution/vreferesh/hsync options after initiating aticonfig –f no longer fails (3) Options such as hsync and vrefresh that use ranges of numbers no longer exit unexpectedly when invoked

NEW FEATURES: (1) X.org 7.1 Support (2) Fedora Core Packaging Support ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) XGL Startup issues (2) Resolved issues with Java's OpenGL accelerated Java2D pipeline. (3) TV out support for Radeon X1K Cards

NEW FEATURES: (1) New Product Support: Radeon® Xpress 1300 IGP, Radeon® Xpress 1250 IGP, Radeon® Xpress 1200 IGP (2) Display Switching Support for IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Products (3) ATI Pairmode Support (4) Retains Display Device State Between Restarts (5) Unified 32 and 64 bit ATI Proprietary Linux Driver ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Connecting a Dell Widescreen UltraSharp 2405FPW to the DVI port of any supported ATI product installed in a system running the X Server no longer results in the display failing to provide an image

NEW FEATURES: (1) Initial Kernel 2.6.18 support ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Unreal Tournament 2004: Using the in-game options to change the desktop display resolution no longer results in the display failing to refresh properly when exiting the game. (2) SPEC ViewPerf: Running the sub-test UGS-04 no longer results in the operating system failing to respond.

ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Users with X Server X.org 7.1 can now play video using XV. The ATI AVIVO Video adaptor is now present. (2) When failing to change the TV format the aticonfig --tv-info no longer report the failed TV format. (3) Using the MPlayer to play a video file followed by dragging any window over top of the player no longer results in corruption being noticed and the video file pausing.

ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Setting the display resolution to 400x300 or less no longer results in the mouse pointer not being able to move across the entire desktop. (2) The graphics driver no longer hangs the system shortly after the X Server is started on Red Hat enterprise Linux 3 system running Uniprocessor kernels. (3) Playing a media file under any distribution with X Server 6.9 or greater no longer results in a brief pause or video tearing when resizing the video window or running the mouse pointer over the video player window. (4) Using aticonfig to set the TV format to PAL-COMB-N no longer fails to update the X Server configuration file.

NEW FEATURES: (1) Xorg 7.2 RC2/openSUSE 10.2 Support (2) ATI Radeon X1650 Support ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) The ATI Mobility Radeon X2300 is now being properly identified when viewing the OpenGL renderer string (2) Switching between X Server and text console mode no longer results in a system failing to respond in some configurations (3) Corruption is no longer noticed when OpenGL applications set the texture sampler's filter to GL_NEAREST (4) The Extended Display Identification Data is now displayed appropriately for Display Data Channel display devices in the X Server log (5) The ati directory is now removed from /usr/share when uninstalling the graphics driver using the fglrx-uninstall.sh uninstall script (6) Installing the graphics driver and configure the driver for dual-head mode no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when hot-unplugging the display device and restarting the X Server (7) Starting the X Server in dual-head mode no longer requires the DRM kernel module to be present (8) Catalyst Linux 8.32.5 provides improvements in the Tripos SYBYL performance benchmark

NEW FEATURES: (1) Xorg 7.2 Support (2) Linux Kernel 2.6.19 Support ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Enabling Stereo on a FireGL V5000 no longer results in corruption being noticed on the X-Windows desktop (2) The ATI Control Panel no longer gets installed when running through the Custom Installation and de-selecting the Control Panel component (3) Connecting two display devices and switching the overlay to the secondary display device no longer causes aticonfig to fail (4) Running through the package gerneration installation of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver no longer results in the continue button remaining greyed out when selecting a package to be generated

NEW FEATURES: (1) Support for ATI Xpress 1250 IGP product for AMD based motherboards. ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) A system hang no longer occurs when attempting to resume from hibernation mode. (2) Loading the XVideo Extension on 64-bit Xorg 6.9+ systems no longer results in the X Server segfaulting when launching with Radeon X1K products (3) Running aticonfig--dtop=(horizontal|vertical) no longer results in clone mode being activated when attempting to enable big desktop mode (4) Running through the un-install of the Linux graphics driver no longer results in the /usr/share/fglrx and /usr/share/ati folders failing to be removed

NEW FEATURES: (1) AMD Catalyst Control Center: Linux Edition Beta now available. ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) Screen no longer turns black if the X-Server is terminated from the text console on certain laptop configurations.

NEW FEATURES: (1) Linux Kernel 2.6.20 Support (2) AMD Catalyst Control Centre v0.9 adds language localization for: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese Tranditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, and Turkish. ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) In certain AGP graphics cards, the system no longer ceases to respond when switching from the X-Server display to a text console.