AMD 8.36.5 Display Driver
Last month the AMD Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition had entered the world with mixed opinions by the ATI/AMD Linux user community. In our 8.35.5 Linux driver review we had looked at the Linux version of the Catalyst Control Center quite extensively. This new control center replaced the old fireglcontrolpanel and in our opinion was a huge move for AMD. However, the negativity against the Catalyst Control Center has been by those seeking the much overdue AIGLX support. While today's 8.36.5 release doesn't contain AIGLX support, it does contain a few changes worth mentioning.
It was in early February when the Linux 2.6.20 kernel was released but neither the February 8.34 or March 8.35 fglrx drivers had contained official support. However, this month's 8.36.5 driver does finally append proper Linux kernel 2.6.20 support. The Fedora patch that was made popular in the 8.35 release for Linux 2.6.20 support was only a temporary patch and a proper solution has been implemented in this driver release. With the proper Linux 2.6.20 support, there should be appropriate Ubuntu Feisty Fawn build support with the 8.36.5 driver.
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