Download AMD Catalyst 12.1 Proprietary Linux Display Driver

[Dr@]

<div class="newsfloatleft"><img src="http://www.planet3dnow.de/photoplog/images/54308/1_AMD-Catalyst-Software.png" border="0" alt="AMD Catalyst Software"></div>Neben dem monatlich veröffentlichten <a href="http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/newspub/viewnews.cgi?id=1327535910">Windows Catalyst Treiber-Update</a> hat AMD auch aktualisierte Linux-Treiber zum Download bereitgestellt. Derzeit werden die Distributionen Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite, Novell/SuSE product suite und Ubuntu offiziell unterstützt. Weitere Informationen können den offiziellen <a href="http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_12.1_Linux_Installer.pdf" target="b">Installer Notes</a> entnommen werden.
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<strong>Was ist neu?</strong>
<blockquote>AMD veröffentlicht derzeit keine Release Notes zu den proprietären Linux-Treibern, was das Unternehmen uns gegenüber wie folgt begründet:
<blockquote><i>"The well-established channels for communicating issues amongst the different Linux communities have been determined to be more common sources for users to discuss and discover any issues and resolutions."</i></blockquote>
<b>Feature highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.1 Linux driver:</b>
This release of AMD Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems
<ul><li>SLED 11 SP2 early look support</li><li>Ubuntu 11.10 production level support</li></ul></blockquote>

<b>Download:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/file/get.cgi?20120125164732">AMD Catalyst 12.1 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver [32-bit & 64-bit]</a></li></ul>

<b>Links zum Thema:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_12.1_Linux_Installer.pdf" target="b">AMD Catalyst Installer Notes for Linux</a></li><li><a href="http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/linux.html" target="b">ATI Proprietary Linux Driver FAQ</a></li><li><a href="http://www.amdsurveys.com/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D23CFE9B36" target="b">Linux Crew Driver Feedback</a></li><li><a href="http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page" target="b">Unofficial Wiki for the ATI Linux Driver</a></li><li><a href="http://ati.cchtml.com/" target="b">ATI Linux Platform Bug Reporting</a></li></ul></p>

 

[nazgul99]

Phoronix weiß mehr:

• Ubuntu 11.10 "production" support. The Catalyst driver has worked under Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" for a number of releases now, but now it's deemed "production" capable. However, as already reported in the forums, if you try to build the Debian packages from the Catalyst 12.1 installer, it's actually broken. You're better off waiting for the Catalyst 12.1 packages to appear in an Ubuntu PPA or the updates repository. If you want to build the packages youself, fetch the latest fglrx-packaging build scripts from Phorogit (a Phoronix Media owned property) where the official Catalyst Linux packaging scripts are housed.
  
• Catalyst 12.1 has early-look support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED11) Service Pack 2.
  
• Various packaging script updates from Phorogit.
  
• Known issues still under Ubuntu 11.10 include: LP#884564 display overlap problem (NUX), LP#885989 White screen on second screen (nautilus), LP#885991 No window manager on second screen (compiz, gnome-session), LP#882916 Panning doesn’t work (g-s-d and Xserver), LP#838128 Unity crash when use xrandr to enable Single Large Desktop mode (unity, compiz), and LP#898970 Cannot maximize the window to both screens in vertical multi monitor configuration (unity, NUX).
  
• There is some unannounced OpenCL work that went into Catalyst 12.1.
  
• The AMD Radeon HD 7970 should now be officially supported by Catalyst 12.1 wit working acceleration and no longer being flagged as "unsupported hardware." However, I'm still waiting on my Radeon HD 7970 hardware from AMD to confirm.
  
• The known issues still outstanding in the Catalyst 12.1 world is GNOME Shell doesn't work with dual-head mode.

 

[Dr@]

AMD hat jetzt auch für Linux einen speziellen Treiber mit Unterstützung für die Radeon HD 7900 bereitgestellt:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/catalyst121linuxdriver.aspx