Release Notes
Änderungen/Bugfixes:
New Features
This section provides information on new features introduced in the latest release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver. This include:
Hotplug Support for Digital Flat Panels
Thermal Event Power Management
Hotplug Support for Digital Flat Panels
This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver introduces support for dynamically attaching a Digital Flat Panel (DFP). The attached display will show a cloned image of the primary display. For this feature to work please ensure that the daemon /sbin/atieventsd is started.Further details can be found in topic number 737-22636.
Thermal Event Power Management
This release of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver now enables Thermal Event Power Management. The ATI Proprietary Linux driver now reacts to Thermal Events by throttling down the GPU to prevent overheating. For this feature to work please ensure that the daemon /sbin/atieventsd is started. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22637
Resolved Issues
The following section provide a brief description of resolved issues with the latest version of the ATI Proprietary Linux driver. These include:
Aticonfig related issues:
Spurious `Option “(null)”` is no longer written to the X Configuration file
Using Resolution/vreferesh/hsync options after initiating aticonfig –f no longer fails
Options like hsync/vrefresh that use ranges of numbers no longer exit unexpectedly when invoked
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the latest version of ATI Proprietary Linux driver. These issues include:
Attempting to install the ATI Proprietary Linux driver on distributions that have updated certain 3D components outside of the stock XOrg 6.8.2 may result in the driver not initializing 3D applications properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20868
TV display is corrupt after switching resolutions. Further details can be found in topic number 737-1086
TV Out is currently not supported on the ATI Radeon® X1x00 products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22057
A system hang may occur when attempting to resume from hibernation mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22059
Attempting to use 3D applications on Radeon 9000/9100/9200/9250 and FireGL 8x00 products fails to start and reports back something similar to “[fglrx] API ERROR: could not register entrypoint for SelectTextureSGIS”. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22639
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