Driver Update: ATi Linux Drivers 8.12.10

In addition to Catalyst 5.4, ATi has also released new Linux drivers for the Radeon 8500 and 9×00 series graphics cards. This is version 8.12.10 which is only available for XFree86 4.x and X.Org 6.8. Download links can be found at the bottom of this junk post. You can read below what things have changed in this release. For a complete overview of all bug fixes, known issues and new features, please visit the release notes†

Issues Resolved

• Unreal Tournament 2004: Intermittent hesitation is no longer noticed while playing Onslaught
• Moving or resizing pseudocolor windows no longer results in corruption being noticed on the desktop
• The name and version number of the X.org server is now detected correctly at runtime.
• Attempting to launch any application while Viewperf 7.1.1 is running in the background, no longer results in the Red Hat Enterprise 3.0 version 2. operating system failing to respond
• 64 bit system with 4 GB or more of system RAM, no longer fails to initialize 3D graphic acceleration
• The ATI FireGL™ V5000 now uses the DDC information correctly and no longer mis-identifies Low Voltage Differential Signal (LVDS) as Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (TMDS)

Known Issues

• TV Display is Corrupt After Switching Resolutions. Topic number 737-1086
• Attempting to resume from system suspension results in the system failing to respond. Thread number 737-218
• Enabling Quad Buffer Stereo results in 2D graphics corruption under XFree86. Thread number 737-219
• Running two X servers simultaneously results in the system failing to respond. Thread number 737-220
• Currently, stereo support is only available on the FireGL X1 and Z1. Topic number. Topic number 737-18922

[break]Linux x86

• XFree 4.1
• XFree86 4.2
• XFree86 4.3
• X.Org 6.8

Linux x86-64

• XFree86 4.3
• X.Org 6.8