AMD Catalyst 8.9 Gets WINE Fix, RandR 1.2 Support
Last month with the Catalyst 8.8 Linux driver we finally experienced CrossFire support on Linux as well as OverDrive support. This was one of the most significant driver releases of the year, but it's now time to move on as Catalyst 8.9 has just been released. This new driver update does bring a few exciting changes: the long-awaited WINE fixes, what appears to be RandR 1.2 with accelerated rotation support, and a horde of bug-fixes.
Before getting to the major changes, some of the minor fixes include artifacts when moving or resizing windows using TexturedVideo, HDMI audio output failure with R600/RS780 GPUs, hard hang on logging out of the X session for a non-root user in SuSE 11, screen hang when logging out one of two logged-in users in GDM, desktop corruption on SuSE 11.0 KDE 4 when RandR 1.2 support is enabled, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars v1.4 demo running very slowly with corruption, X Server failing to start with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 6 with the RV770PRO, desktop corruption when toggling between virtual desktops after changing the resolution, CRT displays only half-screen in DFP+CRT horizontal mode with 1600x600 resolution, and RPM installation fails with libdrm.so.2. Additionally, the driver now ships with its own libdri binary for MultiView uniformly across all distributions.
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