Canonical Publishes ATI Catalyst 8.10 Beta

[cjr2k3]

I bet that was a co-ordinate move.

I bet in a few hours there will be a news on the main page called:

ATI CATALIST 8.10 RELEASED

(Once michael gets UVD working :P)

[rbmorse]

Thursday, more likely, or maybe Thursday a week.

[bash]

According to the leaked ATI driver roadmap 8.54 should have been out for a while

Link: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?p=2846561

[NeoBrain]

From the Catalyst 8.9 thread:

Wow, just read the phoronix article.
I'm really looking forward to the upcomming 8.10 driver, hoping I'll get XServer 1.5 support on my birthday (15th Oct 08)

Well, guess I was right actually
I'm really interested in what has been going on there "behind the scenes", hopefully the coming days clear that thing up.
Maybe ATI is really into public beta testing these days...

[Extreme Coder]

But what's so groundbreaking about this driver other than X Server 1.5 support? I don't see what the big issue is..

And also, I have to agree with Kano, 3D apps shouldn't have to make workarounds for ATI cards, one 3D rendering command should work for all..

[enzobelmont]

how can i use this driver on my gentoo system???

or should i wait for official release??

i'm tired of radeon driver...

[Pfanne]

But what's so groundbreaking about this driver other than X Server 1.5 support? I don't see what the big issue is..

And also, I have to agree with Kano, 3D apps shouldn't have to make workarounds for ATI cards, one 3D rendering command should work for all..

i hope the ati developers were just trying to get on par with the windowsdrivers, featurewise...
so they are going to fix all the bugs they created on their way with the future releases...
otherwise they will go nowhere with their drivers having a lot of features with none working correctly!

[SheeEttin]

Thursday, more likely, or maybe Thursday a week.

Close. From the RSS feed:

Linux Proprietary Driver - Catalyst 8.10 Release: x86 and x86_64 variants
Driver version: 8.542
NEW FEATURES: (1) AMDTM CAL: Computer Abstraction Layer runtime and libraries support. (2) Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7
ISSUES RESOLVED: (1) X startup failure on Radeon X1xxx and later AGP cards. (2) Xserver crash after logging out multiple times. (3) Bad Xv video playback performance on AGP cards. (4) Artefacts left on the screen when quickly moving an Xv video window.

Installer: https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/a...x86.x86_64.run

[maggo]

the 8.10 seems to be available (not announced yet)
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206...x86.x86_64.run

[Michael]

Note that it's 8.542 and not 8.543.