AMD Catalyst™ 14.9 LINUX driver

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AMD rilascia i driver Catalyst 14.9; con questo rilascio, AMD conferma di voler continuare la strada intrapresa per supportare pienamente la piattaforma Linux.
In questa release vengono introdotte le seguenti novità:

  • Supporto alla scheda AMD Radeon R9 285
  • Supporto ufficiale a Ubuntu 14.04
  • Migliorie nell’installazione, nelle opzioni per la generazione e la distribuzione di package e nell’inserimento di finestre di pop-up per guidare l’utente durante la fase di installazione.

Vengono inoltre risolte le seguenti problematiche:

  • Witcher 2 random lock-up seen when launching the application
  • Screen corruption when connecting an external monitor to some PowerXpress AMD GPU + Intel CPU platforms
  • Intermittent X crash when the user does a rotation with Tear Free Desktop enabled
  • Failure on exit of OpenGL programs
  • Error message being displayed when a user does run clinfo in console mode
  • Blank screen when hot plugging an HDMI monitor from a MST hub
  • System hang after resume from S3/S4 in High Performance mode on PowerXpress AMD GPU + Intel CPU platforms
  • Corruption or artifacting on the bottom right corner of the screen before booting into login UI during restart
  • Occasional segmentation fault when running ETQW
  • xscreensavers test failing with multi-GPU Crossfire™ configurations
  • Motion Builder severe flickering while toggling full screen
  • Intermittent crashing and corruption observed while running X-Plane
  • Some piglit and Khronos OpenGL conformance test failures
  • Displays occasionally going black when startx is run on Ubuntu 14.04 after switching to integrated GPU on PowerXpress AMD GPU + Intel Haswell CPU system platforms
  • A connected external display getting disabled when unplugging AC power from laptop platforms
  • An auto log out when double clicking the picture under desktop server times on PowerXpress AMD GPU + Intel CPU platforms

Rimangono aperti ancora questi bug:

  • [404829]: Horizontal flashing lines on second screen in a clone mode with V-Sync on using AMD Mobility Graphics with Switchable Intel Graphics
  • [404508]: Display takes a long time to redraw the screen after an S4 cycle

Maggiori informazioni li trovate a questo indirizzo; potete scaricare i driver dal sito ufficiale di AMD.