A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night, for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release fixes some important X server bugs, such as:
- The X server no longer crashes if the screen resolution is changed in horizontal or vertical desktop setup with a monitor that does not support DDC;
- The X server no longer segfaults or fails to initialize DRI if a BusID was specified in an unexpected format in xorg.conf;
- The X server no longer freezes on shutdown if atieventsd is running;
- The first OpenGL application run after starting a session on X server version 1.4 no longer hangs.
Known issues of this release:
- On workstation hardware 3D applications will be corrupted if the screen width is not an integer multiple of 64 pixels, for example with a 1680×1050 wide screen display;
- There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode;
- Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode; Read the rest of this entry »
RadeonHD video driver version 1.0.0 was announced today on the X.org Foundation website. Luc Verhagen, from Novel says:”We still have some open bugs which will require some further investigation. But no release will ever be perfect, and our early adopters are reporting far less issues already, so we feel that our driver is good enough to be tagged as a proper release. This way, a wider public will start to use our driver, and further issues can be discovered and fixed.”..RadeonHD is also known as xf86-video-radeonhd and it’s an X.org video driver for R500 and newer ATI graphics devices. It is being developed by Novell for AMD.
