Driver Update: ATi Linux Drivers 8.14.13

In addition to new Windows drivers, Canadian ATi has also updated its Linux drivers for Radeon video cards. It is version 8.14.13 and is only available for Radeon 8500 video cards and above running on a system with XFree86 4.x or X.Org 6.8 installed. ATi Linux Driver 8.14.13 features support for Radeon X800 XL, X850 Pro, X850 XT and X850 XT Platinum Edition. It is also possible to use this release in combination with Linux kernel 2.6.11. The developers of ATi have made available the following document detailing the resolved and known issues:

Issues Resolved

• Quad Buffer Stereo (QBS) support is now working for all ATI FireGL™ products that support QBS
• ATI FireGL X3 products now support dual-link enabled display devices
• The ATI Proprietary Linux driver Driver now falls back to a single-link mode if the card or connector does not support dual-link mode
• The DGA and RandR X Server extensions are now capable of loading simultaneously when using the ATI Proprietary Linux driver
• Intermittent error messages such as, [fglrx:firegl_alloc_bufs] *ERROR* Failed to create buffer queue (-12) and similar, no longer appear in the kernel output
• OpenGL based applications that have common symbol names to that of the libGL library no longer experience intermittent erratic behavior
• Applications using certain OpenGL calls such as, glTexSubImage no longer results in a driver memory leak
• When running in clone mode, the X server no longer crashes with a segmentation fault if the mouse is moved during a mode switch

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