AMD Catalyst™ Linux 8.9 Released ~*

September, 2008

AMD Proprietary Linux Release Notes

This release note provides information on the latest posting of AMD’s Proprietary Linux driver. This particular driver updates the software version to 8.532.

The AMD Linux release notes provides information on the following:

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ATI Workstation Product Support

ATI Mobility™ and Integrated Mobility™ Product Family Support

ATI Desktop and Integrated Product Family Support

Operating Systems Distributions Supported

System Requirements

New Features

Resolved Issues

Known Issues

Installing the AMD Proprietary Linux Software Driver

Driver Update Notification

AMD Customer Care

Linux Feedback Program

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The Catalyst™ Linux Graphics Driver software suite is available through an Installer executable.

Note: Refer to the minimum system requirements listed below to ensure you have downloaded the correct driver package for your system.

AMD Workstation Product Support

The Catalyst™ Linux software suite is designed to support the following AMD Workstation products:

AMD Workstation Product Family Support

ATI FireGL™ V8650

ATI FireGL™ V3300

ATI FireGL™ V8600

ATI FireGL™ V3200

ATI FireGL™ V7700

ATI FireGL™ V3100

ATI FireGL™ V7600

ATI FireGL™ X3-256

ATI FireGL™ V7350

ATI FireGL™ X3

ATI FireGL™ V7300

ATI FireGL™ V5000

ATI FireGL™ V7200

ATI FireGL™ X2-256

ATI FireGL™ V7100

ATI FireGL™ Z1-128

ATI FireGL™ V5600

ATI FireGL™ T2-128

ATI FireGL™ V5200

ATI FireGL™ X1-128

ATI FireGL™ V5100

ATI FireGL™ X1-256p

ATI FireGL™ V5000

ATI FireMV™ 2200

(Single card PCI-e configuration)

ATI FireGL™ V3600

ATI Mobility™ FireGL™ V5000

ATI FireGL™ V3400

ATI Mobility™ FireGL™ T2

AMD Mobility™ and Integrated Mobility™ Product Family Support

The Catalyst™ Linux software suite is designed to support the following AMD Mobility™ products:

AMD Mobile Product Family Support

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X3870

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X1100

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X3850

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X800

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X3830

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X700

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X3430

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ Xpress 1200 series

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X3400

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X600

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X2600

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X300

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X2400

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X200

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X2300

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ 9800

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X1800

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ 9600

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X1600

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ 9550

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X1400

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ 9500

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X1300

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ Xpress 1100 series

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ X1200

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ Xpress 200 series

AMD Desktop and Integrated Product Family Support

The Catalyst™ Linux software suite is designed to support the following AMD desktop products:

AMD Desktop Product Family Support

ATI Radeon™ X1900 series

ATI Radeon™ X600 series

ATI Radeon™ X1800 series

ATI Radeon™ X550/X300 series

ATI Radeon™ X1600 series

ATI Radeon™ 9800 series

ATI Radeon™ X1300 series

ATI Radeon™ 9700 series

ATI Radeon™ X850 series

ATI Radeon™ 9600 series

ATI Radeon™ X800 series

ATI Radeon™ 9550 series

ATI Radeon™ X700 series

ATI Radeon™ 9500 series

AMD Chipset Product Family Support

ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series

ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series

ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 series

ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series

ATI Radeon™ HD 3600 series

ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series

ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 series

ATI Radeon™ Xpress1200 series

ATI Radeon™ HD 3300 series

ATI Radeon™ Xpress 200 series

ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 series

ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1100 series

ATI Radeon™ HD 3100 series

Note:The ATI Radeon™ HD 3870X2 series of product is currently not supported by the Catalyst™ Linux software suite

Note:All-In-Wonder™ variants based on the above are also supported. Video capture however is not supported.

Note:Software driver support for ATI FireGL™, Integrated, Mobility™ and Desktop products prior to the Radeon™ 9500 is available from ati.com

Operating Systems Distributions Supported

The latest version of the Catalyst™ Linux software suite is designed to support the following Linux distributions:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite

Novell/SuSE product suite

Ubuntu 8.04

Red Flag

Note:The Catalyst™ Linux software suite may install on a number of other Linux distributions. Refer to the Package Generation installation instructions for more information.

Note:AMD has accepted contributed packaging scripts to allows creation of other packages, but does not necessarily test, verify or warrant the reliability. Currently Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite and Novell/SuSE product suite are supported Linux distributions

System Requirements

Before attempting to install the Catalyst™ Linux software suite, the following software must be installed:

XOrg 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 or 7.3

Linux Kernel 2.6 and above

glibc version 2.2 or 2.3

POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications

The Catalyst™ Linux software suite no longer provides precompiled Kernel Modules; all installations require GCC compiler and kernel-headers or kernel-source in order to enable 2D and 3D acceleration.

For best performance and ease of use, AMD recommends the following:

Kernel module build environment – should include the following:

Kernel source code: Either the Kernel Source or Kernel Headers packages

The rpm utility should be installed and configured correctly on your system, if you intend to install via RPM packages

The following packages must be installed in order for the Catalyst™ Linux driver to install and work properly:

XFree86-Mesa-libGL

libstdc++

libgcc

XFree86-libs

fontconfig

freetype

zlib

New Features

This release of Catalyst™ Linux introduces product support for the following new operating systems:

Red Flag DT6SP1 production support

OpenSUSE 11 production support

Red Flag DT6SP1 support

This release of Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following operating system:

·    Red Flag Desktop 6 service pack 1

OpenSUSE 11 support

This release of Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following operating system:

·    OpenSUSE 11

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:

·    A fatal server error no longer occurs when changing the display resolution using Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition and restarting X. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37419

·    Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Clicking on the 3D leaf in Page Tree no longer results in 3D Page Tree failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37425

·    Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: A green box at the bottom of the page the TV and Position page is no longer displayed. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37426

·    Default buttons are no longer available in the Catalyst Control Center for driver options that do not have custom settings available. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37427

·    HDMI Audio support for the Linux Operating system is now available for the ATI Radeon HD 3100/3200 series of products. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37420

·    Hot plugging a digital panel to an ATI Radeon HD 46×0 series product no longer results in the digital panel failing to become active. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37421

·    X-Windows no longer fails to launch after the driver installation for the ATI Radeon HD 4870 product. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37422

·    Rebooting the system after completing the driver installation no longer results in X failing to re-start on systems containing an ATI FireGL V7700 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37431

·    X no longer fails to respond when shutting down in dual head mode. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37430

·    The entire X desktop including the mouse cursor is no longer choppy during playback of video files or suzi test app. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37423

·    The TV size and position adjusting sliders are no longer missing on systems running Linux. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37424

·    Running aticonfig –initial –f on a system with two display devices connected no longer results in dual head mode failing to function. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37438

·    Automatic post install configuration is now functioning. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37441

·    Corruption is no longer noticed on the Linux Desktop when moving an application or browser window. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37439

·    Logging out one of multiple users no longer results in X failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37440

·    Connecting an HDMI display device may result in the audio failing to be heard. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37428

·    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. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37429

·    The resolutions of 540p and 1080p @ 60Hz no longer fail to be added to the Display Manager list of resolutions when they are selected from HDTV -> Formats. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37435

·    Connecting an HDMI display device and connecting an HDMI cable from the graphics card to the display device no longer results in audio failing. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37436

·    Closing fgl_glxgears or glxgears via the toolkit “X” in a multi-head dual-head environment no longer results in a segmentation fault. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37432

·    Running textured video on systems running Linux no longer results in a segmentation fault. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37433

·    GLESX: An unresolved symbol error is no longer noticed in the XOrg log. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37442

·    Playing rotyov no longer results in the system response time becoming slow on SLES10.2. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37443

·    Doom 3: The performance gap between Windows XP and Linux no longer increases when CrossFire is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37434

·    Doom3: Enabling clone mode and setting the display resolution to 1280×1024 no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37437

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:

·    SUSE 10.332-bit: The operating system mail fail to respond when pressing “Ctrl+Alt+F7/F8” to switch sessions when “fgl_glxgears” is running. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37445

·    SUSE 10.3or RHEL 5.1: The operating system may fail occasionally to respond when running fgl_glxgears. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37451

·    RHEL 5.132-bit/64-bit and SUSE 10.3 32-bit/64-bit: The operating system may fail to launch after the installation of the graphics driver. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37448

·    Undefined symbols may be noticed when trying to load fglrx on Ubuntu 8.10. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37447

·    SoftimageXSI Ariane x64: A segmentation fault may occur when loading the application. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37457

·    SPECViewperf8.1: Running the standard DPPT tests may intermittently result in RHEL 5.2 operating system failing to respond on systems containing an ATI FireGL V7700 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37455

·    Poor performance may intermittently be noticed when running GTKperf on systems containing an ATI Radeon HD 38×0 or newer product. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37444

·    Playing a video file under X may result in the player displaying a blank image and the audio being choppy. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37446

·    Setting the display resolution to 1600×600 on a system running SUSE 10.3(32/64bit) or RHEL 5.1 (32/64bit) may result in only half of the image being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37449

·    The system may hard hang when logging on to the X Server after the installation of the driver package. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37450

·    Entering a standby state while running a 3D application may result in desktop corruption being noticed when resuming the system. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37452

·    Running Xtest may result in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37454

·    A segmentation fault may occur when closing AMD CCC LE. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37456

·    Launching and exiting Xterm multiple times may intermittently result in a segmentation fault under X server. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37458

·    Enabling OpenGL overlay may result in the system failing to respond during the Xserver initialization. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37459

·    Enabling dual head on all adapters may intermittently result in X failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number: 737-37460

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: www.ati.com/install

Driver Update Notification

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AMD Customer Care

The AMD Customer Care website provides a high level of technical support and easy of navigation. The AMD Customer Care website provides accurate and up-to-date product support for optimum usability and performance. Technical issues are categorized and personalized to enhance user experience. The AMD Customer Care Website can be found at: support.ati.com

To view a known or resolved issue, do the following:

Go to: support.ati.com. The AMD Customer Care web page is displayed.

In the top left hand pane, click Advanced Search. The Advanced Search pane is displayed.

Under Search Type: Select the By: ID option.

Enter the Topic number.

Click Go.

Linux Feedback Program

The Catalyst™ Linux software suite releases may incorporate suggestions received through the Linux feedback program.
Please refer to http://apps.ati.com/linuxDfeedback/ to provide us with feedback.

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