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ATI Mobility™ and Integrated Product Family Support
The ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite is designed to support the following ATI Mobility™ products:
Mobility™ Radeon™ X1800
Mobility™ Radeon™ X600
Mobility™ Radeon™ X1600
Mobility™ Radeon™ X300
Mobility™ Radeon™ X1400
Mobility™ Radeon™ X200
Mobility™ Radeon™ X1300
Mobility™ Radeon™ 9800
Mobility™ Radeon™ X1200
Mobility™ Radeon™ 9600
Mobility™ Radeon™ X1100
Mobility™ Radeon™ 9550
Mobility™ Radeon™ X800
Mobility™ Radeon™ 9500
Mobility™ Radeon™ X700
Mobility™ Radeon™ Xpress 1100 series
Mobility™ Radeon™ Xpress 1200 series
Mobility™ Radeon™ Xpress 200 series
ATI Desktop and Integrated Product Family Support
The ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite is designed to support the following ATI desktop products:
Radeon™ HD 2900 series
Radeon™ Xpress1200 series
Radeon™ HD 2400 series
Radeon™ Xpress 200 series
Radeon™ HD 2600 series
Radeon™ X600 series
Radeon™ X1900 series
Radeon™ X550/X300 series
Radeon™ X1800 series
Radeon™ 9800 series
Radeon™ X1600 series
Radeon™ 9700 series
Radeon™ X1300 series
Radeon™ 9600 series
Radeon™ X850 series
Radeon™ 9550 series
Radeon™ X800 series
Radeon™ 9500 series
Radeon™ X700 series
Radeon™ Xpress 1100 series
New Features
This release of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux driver introduces the following new features:Resolved Issues
[*] Support for Accelerated Indirect Rendering (AIGLX)
[*] Support for X.org version 7.3
[*] Products older than Radeon™ HD 2x00 are now supported after being enabled only for testing in 8.41.7
[*] A new 3D user interface is now avaialble in the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center-Linux Edition. The new interface allows for the setting of Anti-Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, and VSync. Included on the new 3D interface are static preview images showing the visual effects of the different 3D settings
The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These include:Known Issues
[*] Playing videos with TexturedVideo no longer results in stuttering being noticed
[*] Corruption is no longer noticed when the Composite extension is enabled
[*] Segmentation faults in OpenGL applications and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center Linux Edition with Rialto-based AGP cards no longer occur
[*] Various error messages no longer appear during RPM installation under SuSE 10.2. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29576
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Catalyst™ Linux software suite. These issues include:
[*] There is no support for video playback on the second head in dual head mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26985
[*] Desktop corruption may be noticed when dragging the overlay/video when using dual-display mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29578
[*] A black screen may be observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28558
[*] The display may go blank with clone/dual/horizontal mode configured or switching VT on systems containing an ATI Radeon 9800 XT product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29574
[*] An error message appears during installation if dash is used as /bin/sh. A topic number is not available for this issue
[*] Several distribution-specific packaging scripts are not up-to-date in this release. In particular packaging for 64-bit Ubuntu versions is known to be broken. A topic number is not available for this issue
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/etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager: 7: intel: not found
Checking for Xgl: not present.
No whitelisted driver found
aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity