AMD Catalyst 12.12 For Linux Released

[gradinaruvasile]

OK, i finally got everything (well, not exactly...i had to use a old case from a matx rig untill my new mitx case arrives , also, MB end up to be ASROCK FM2A75M-ITX because of price and availability of the MSI but quite honestly i'm very happy with the ASROCK MoBo !!! ) and i'm loving it !!!


I only have a "problem"....i'm using CATALYST 12.11 Beta 11 and for my surprise when X starts there is a translucent AMD Logo and some partial text saying "Testing...use only..." , WTF !!! Why in the Hell they done that ?!? I know it's a BETA but WHY put it there ?!?

Is there a way to get rid of it ?!?

TIA,
AJSB

Yes.

Change /etc/ati/signature
from

UNSIGNED

to

9777c589791007f4aeef06c922ad54a2:ae59f5b9572136d99fdd36f0109d358fa643f2bd4a2644d9efbb4fe91a9f6590a145:f612f0b01f2565cd9bd834f8119b309bae11a1ed4a2661c49fdf3fad11986cc4f641f1ba1f2265909a8e34ff1699309bf211a7eb4d7662cd9f8e3faf14986d92f646f1bc

And restart the x server or just reboot.

[AJSB]

LOL, i published the answer myself before you did (!) but thanks, i could haven't found it and i appreciate....and happy new year to you and everybody else also

[legluondunet]

thanks to post this soluce, this could help. From my side i'm using last 12.12 drivers version with my radeon 7850 with no problem. Be carefull, I had unstability with the 12.11 drivers version, X sometimes did freeze.

[gradinaruvasile]

thanks to post this soluce, this could help. From my side i'm using last 12.12 drivers version with my radeon 7850 with no problem. Be carefull, I had unstability with the 12.11 drivers version, X sometimes did freeze.

I didnt have any issues with 12.11 (using it right now) - did try 12.12 and worked well also. I have a A8-5500 with HD 7560D integrated and i use Debian Testing Xfce 4.10 with no composition, kernel 3.6-trunk-686-pae. No issues whatsoever, even suspend/hibernate (and hybrid suspend) works without issues.
What distro do you use?

[legluondunet]

I didnt have any issues with 12.11 (using it right now) - did try 12.12 and worked well also. I have a A8-5500 with HD 7560D integrated and i use Debian Testing Xfce 4.10 with no composition, kernel 3.6-trunk-686-pae. No issues whatsoever, even suspend/hibernate (and hybrid suspend) works without issues.
What distro do you use?

I'm using Ubuntu Quantal 64bits. With Catalyst 12.11 beta, video overlay was buggy too.

[Bullet500]

Good driver.

TF2 is not experiencing FPS drops on my HD 6470M. Completely playable now.

[mannerov]

Can we use this driver for an hd7730m card?
It is an "embedded driver", then it should not be for desktop/mobile cards, but above I see some comments of people using this driver...

If I want a stable driver for my new laptop that has an intel cpu and an hd7730m card, should I take catalyst 12.10, 12.11 beta or 12.12 ?

[gradinaruvasile]

Can we use this driver for an hd7730m card?
It is an "embedded driver", then it should not be for desktop/mobile cards, but above I see some comments of people using this driver...

If I want a stable driver for my new laptop that has an intel cpu and an hd7730m card, should I take catalyst 12.10, 12.11 beta or 12.12 ?

Drivers support many GPUs. I for example have an A8-5500 APU with its onboard AMD Radeon HD 7560D and all the above drivers work with it.

[mannerov]

It's surprising then that AMD didn't put these drivers in the legacy folder.

If they are the better ones, I will take 12.12.

[bridgman]

Legacy would imply support for HD 2xxx - HD 4xxx or older... don't think these drivers go back that far.