ATI Drivers - 8.40.4 released

[Zinden]

Download Here: ati-driver-installer-8.40.4-x86.x86_64.run

New Features

This release of the Catalyst Linux driver introduces the following new features:

* TV Out Functionality
* Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition

TV Out Functionality

TV out functionality is now available under the Linux operating system for ATI graphics cards that support TV Out (S-video, composite, and component video). The feature is part of the Catalyst Control Center LE and will provide a users with a variety of TV out adjustments.

Note: TV Size and Position functions for ATI Radeonâ„¢ X1200 series of products and above are adjusted through the aticonfig command line.

Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition

This release of the Catalyst Linux introduces a 64-bit version of the Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.

Resolved Issues

The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalystâ„¢ Linux software suite. These include:

* A black screen is no longer observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28558

* Connecting a component Video display device launching X-Server no longer results in X-Server failing to start and the display device displaying a black screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28846

* The DRI no longer fails to initialize in the second server generation. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28847

* Pressing the identify displays function no longer results in display device 1 and 2 being incorrectly identified. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28848

* A Floating Point Exception error no longer occurs when launching amdcccle. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28849



Men tyvärr alla, ingen AIGLX support ännu.

[Espreon]

Does it now support AIGLX? or is it only for crappy XGL?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Thanks for the 'heads up', Zinden. Have you installed it on your PC and, if so, which version of SL are you using? Does it work well? I've never been able to get the CCC working under SL 3.26, 3.3 and now 3.4 Loop 2b -- does it work OK now?