Driver Update: ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 10.3

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AMD has released new Linux drivers for its ATI Radeon video cards. The download is 82MB in size and can be used for both 32bit and 64bit environments. The system requirements for version 10.3 are unchanged. They are compatible with Radeon HD2400 and FireGL V3600 and above, versions 6.8 through 7.4 of X.org, Linux kernel 2.6, and glibc versions 2.2 or 2.3. New in this release is preliminary support for version 5.5 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The changelog also shows some bug fixes and a short list of known issues that have not yet been resolved:

New Features

  • Support for New Linux Operating Systems
    • 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

Known Issues

  • System may become unresponsive after executing specific combinations of XRandR reflections and rotations
  • “X.org -probeonly” may cause screen corruption or the system to fail to respond
  • Flickering corruption might be visible while running OpenGL applications with CrossFire enabled on specific ASICs
  • [Catalyst Control Center] Some systems may intermittently stop responding when changing the scaling options
  • System may fail to display error message when improper values ​​are used in “aticonfig –tv-geometry” resulting in invalid “TVHSizeAdj” and “TVVSizeAdj” values ​​in xorg.conf file
  • MPlayer may fail to play H.264 and VC1 HD clips on specific ASICs

Version number 10.3
Release status Final
Operating systems Linux, Linux AMD64, Linux IA-64
Website amd
Download https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-10-3-x86.x86_64.run
File size 82.10MB
License type Conditions (GNU/BSD/etc.)
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