Catalyst 9.10

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ATI Catalyst Linux 9.10 driver
Release date: October 22nd, 2009

[edit] New Features

This release of ATI CatalystTM Linux introduces support for the following new operating system:

"aticonfig -xinerama=on" no longer results in different dimensions and DPI settings between Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04
CAL SDK samples will no longer throw an error message while executing on the second ASIC
Playback with UVD acceleration no longer causes Mplayer to terminate abruptly or display blank video
Display corruption no longer observed after changing TV format from NTSC to PAL and restarting X server
System now responds properly when multi-display mode is being configured
Pressing the "Detect Displays" button in Catalyst Control Center will now detect newly hotplugged displays properly
System no longer becomes unresponsive when playing VC-1 or H.264 content in dual stream with SD MPEG content
Changes to gamma values are no longer applied to the wrong display when X is restarted
With CrossFire enabled, pressing the "Detect Displays" button no longer causes the "3D" settings drop down menu to expand in the Catalyst Control Center Display Manager
Desktop rotation changes will no longer cause segmentation fault in clone mode
Systems with both CRT and LVDS displays connected will now respond properly when starting the X server

With CrossFire enabled, system may become unresponsive when switching to DC (battery) mode with full-screen applications running
Desktop resolution changes through Catalyst Control Center might not be applied after restarting X
System may become unresponsive when toggling between virtual terminals in multi-head configuration with applications running
System may become unreponsive after executing specific combinations of XRandR reflections and rotations
X server may fail to start GUI Desktop Manager after enabling secondary adapter using Catalyst Control Center
[Ubuntu 9.04] Animated busy mouse cursor may disappear or flicker in clone mode
Corruption may be visible after hotplugging a display and doing a Virtual Terminal switch
[RHEL 5.3] The secondary display may become disabled after resuming from sleep/hibernation in big desktop mode
Screen rotation may result in corrupt video playback
[SUSE 11.1] Unplugging the secondary display and terminating the X server (Ctrl + Alt + Backspace) may cause the primary display to become blank and display corruption
fgl_glxgears application may fail to function and cause the system to stop responding while performing OpenGL GLX Remote Rendering
In dual-head mode, performing a XRandR command (rotation or screen resolution change) on screen 1 may cause both screens to display corruption
Segmentation fault may occur or system may display error during boot up if X is stopped in Dual-Head mode