AMD ATI Catalyst 8.6 linux display driver released
Author: admin Posted in June 19, 2008
AMD released their ATI Catalyst 8.6 linux display driver yesterday. The new version Catayst driver come with UYVY and YUY2 pixel format support ,which support provides interleaved stream support for video playback applications such as TVTime and MythTV,as new feature .Moreover,that new version Catalyst linux diplay driver also fixed 20 issues ,eg:
Maya 2008: An incorrect colormap is no longer displayed for texture selector on systems running X. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35207
Quake 3 Arena (demo): Segmentation faults no longer occur when attempting to play the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35206
Quake3: Corruption is no longer noticed when changing the display resolution when the game is running. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35209
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars: Playing the demo on a system running X no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35208
Please see the office realse note for more information:http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_86_linux.html
Download ATI Catalyst 8.6 linux display driver:https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8-6-x86.x86_64.run
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