AMD Catalyst 11.9 Driver Is Now Available

[phoronix]

Phoronix: AMD Catalyst 11.9 Driver Is Now Available

There's a new AMD Linux driver blob available for those that haven't yet fetched it, but it's not particularly exciting, unless you're using GNOME3...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTk1NQ

[Maxim Levitsky]

And its (*)crime against humanity to use Gnome3 and/or Unity.






(*) because it locks you out of ability to use arbitrary WMs.

[»John«]

There's a new AMD Linux driver blob available for those that haven't yet ditched it, but it's not particularly exciting, unless you're using GNOME3...

As always - I mean always light years behind the current kernel & X.Org development and brings nothing particularly exciting except introducing yet another pile of regressions in extremely lousy code that was already slow and unstable enough. Great job, blobbers!

[xpander]

regressions? where?
works fine just like 11.8 for me.
linux mint 11 64 bit, gnome 2.32.1, kernel 3.0.4, ati 5770

-tearfree works nicely
-native linux games work good (HoN, Xonotic just to name few)
-anti aliasing works in wine
-still have GLSL errors when playing games with wine.


basically nothing changed for me.

[devius]

Blender has been very broken with fglrx and Unity-2D since version 11.7. Let's see if it's fixed in this release...