New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the ATI
Radeon Display Driver. These include the following:
- Support for New Linux Operating Systems
- Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
- 2D performance enhancements
Support for New Linux Operating Systems
This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating
system:
- RHEL 5.5 production support
Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon
HD 5000 Series
- ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon
HD Series
2D performance enhancements
ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers a new architecture for 2D acceleration. The new 2D
architecture delivers fast windows resizing with Compiz/Visual-Effects and general 2D
performance improvements in all AMD supported Linux distributions.
Resolved Issues
The following section provides a brief description of resolved issues with the latest
version of the ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These include:
- "Xorg -probeonly" no longer causes screen corruption or the system to fail to respond
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the
latest version of ATI Catalyst Linux software suite. These issues include:
- OpenCL 1.0 conformance tests have not been run with this version of the ATI
Catalyst Driver Suite in conjunction with the ATI Stream SDK v2.1. If you require
an OpenCL 1.0 conformant driver, we recommend that you install the ATI
Catalyst 10.5 Driver Suite
- Desktop arrangement area may appear empty and fail to display the icon number
when Catalyst Control Center is relaunched after disabling or hot-unplugging the
secondary display
- Disabling the primary display in clone/dual-head mode may cause Catalyst Control
Center not to launch properly after X restart
- Applying display rotation using Catalyst Control Center or XRandR may result in
display turning blank with mouse cursor while rotating the display
- X-server may fail to start, or unusual behaviour may be observed, after applying
various HDTV formats of 1080i30/25/p50 standard and optimized modes on DVI/DP
displays
- CrossFire might not be enabled properly on the first Gemimi card, with Anti-Alias
8x displaying no visual changes, under a 2 Gemini multi-adapter configuration
- Xserver may fail when applying "Maintain Aspect Ratio" option from GPU scaling at
maximum resolution
- [SUSE] Desktop corruption may be visible after applying rotation using Catalyst
Control Center and restarting X
- Enabling a second ASIC without a monitor connected may result in black screen and
X window not launching when startx is executed
- System may fail to display error message when improper position values are used in
"aticonfig --tv-geometry" resulting in invalid "TVHPosAdj" and "TVVPosAdj"
values in xorg.conf file
- [Ubuntu 10.04] X segmentation faults on startup on multi-ASIC systems
- Switching to clone mode by pressing Fn+F4 might not function properly after
connecting an external VGA monitor
- Segmentation fault may occur when running "Quake 4" and "Enemy Territory:
Quake Wars" at 1280x1024 or resolutions higher than current desktop resolution
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