Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Linux Driver Released
AMD has released a beta proprietary Linux driver for Catalyst 12.9...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5MzM
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Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Linux Driver Released
AMD has released a beta proprietary Linux driver for Catalyst 12.9...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE5MzM
Is there any news on the legacy amd driver for the dropped AMD cards?
From http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...etadriver.aspx:Quote:
Originally Posted by phoronix
Feature Highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta: AMD Catalyst Mobility support for AMD Enduro Technology
AMD Catalyst Mobility now includes support for AMD Enduro Technology.
AMD Enduro Technology for Notebooks delivers:
Long lasting battery life
GPU accelerated performance for gaming, video, and compute apps
A Seamless and automatic experience
New features found in Catalyst 12.9 Beta:
Re-designed Catalyst Control Center user interface
View all profiled applications
View recently run applications
Profile applications based on power source
Expert mode control and customization
Performance centric AC
Battery centric DC
Performance highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 12.9 Beta (versus AMD Catalyst 12.8)
Up to 10% in Lost Planet 2 in single GPU configurations
Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Linux® Driver: New OS Support
This release of AMD Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems.
Ubuntu 12.10 early look support
RHEL 6.3 production support
Resolved issue highlights of the AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta driver
Tri and Quad CrossFire+ Eyefinity configurations – Certain DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 applications lower than expected performance
FireFox – corruption observed in CrossFire configurations
Enabling Overdrive settings increased clocks in all power states
Availability of AMD Video Converter support in AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Windows 7 and Windows Vista packages
Some infos about the beta update can be found here:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...etadriver.aspx
Quote:
Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Linux® Driver: New OS Support
This release of AMD Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems.
Ubuntu 12.10 early look support
RHEL 6.3 production support
end of July was their Catalyst 12.6 for legacy cards released: support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/legacy/Pages/legacy-radeon_linux.aspxQuote:
Originally Posted by wpoely86
I wouldn't expect that they will update their legacy driver in the rest of this year. But I don't mind, because I use the default Radeon driver anyways.
same thing here, but the opensource driver is just a temporary solution.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenrin
even supertuxkart lags.
People have been desperatly waiting for steam to reach linux and know they cannot run the games.
this sounds like a bad joke.
FYI the version number is 9.00
I upgraded from the april 8.960 release and Wine applications are garbled now, but KDE and native Neverwinter Nights (only game I tried) are notably smoother (less micro-freezes)
It's really too bad about Wine since I need it daily, so I had to revert to 8.960
I only tested Rage and it works basically with wine 1.5.13. It was unplayable with 12-6-legacy. Maybe you installed it in a wrong way.
Sorry, I should have specified that it's the Windows GUI apps such as winecfg which are corrupted.
Does It support xorg 1.13? If not, that would explain how I can't ge it to work on Ubuntu quantal .. :|