ATI Catalyst 9.12 released.

[rajeev1204]

Here you go . http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.36&lang=English

More control center gui options in linux now.

[Excedio]

If you're as curious as I am




removed incorrect quote.

[Grenage]

*get's his ATI card out for another test session*

[rajeev1204]

If you're as curious as I am

YOu have posted for the older 9.11 release.

Here is the release notes for the new 9.12 release


The latest version of the ATI CatalystTM Linux software suite is designed to support the
following Linux distributions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite
Novell/SuSE product suite
Ubuntu

Note: The ATI CatalystTM Linux software suite may install on a
number of other Linux distributions. Refer to the Package Generation
installation instructions for more information.
Note: AMD has contributed packaging scripts to allow creation of
other packages, but does not necessarily test, verify or warrant the
reliability. Currently Red Hat Enterprise Linux suite and
Novell/SuSE product suite are supported Linux distributions.

System Requirements
Before attempting to install the ATI CatalystTM Linux software suite, the following
software must be installed:
XOrg 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 or 7.4
Linux kernel 2.6 or above
glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D applications
The ATI CatalystTM Linux software suite no longer provides precompiled Kernel
Modules; all installations require GCC compiler and kernel-headers or kernel-source in
order to enable 2D and 3D acceleration.
For best performance and ease of use, ATI recommends the following:
Kernel module build environment
o Kernel source code include either the Kernel Source or Kernel Headers packages
The RPM utility should be installed and configured correctly on your system, if you
intend to install via RPM packages
The following packages must be installed in order for the CatalystTM Linux driver to
install and work properly:
XFree86-Mesa-libGL
libstdc++
libgcc
XFree86-libs
fontconfig
freetype
zlib
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ATI Proprietary Linux Release Notes
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New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the RadeonTM
Display Driver. These include the following:
Support for New Linux Operating Systems
ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Displays pages: user interface
enhancements
Support for New Linux Operating Systems
This release of ATI CatalystTM Linux introduces support for the following new operating
system:
RedFlag DT6.0 SP3
SLED and SLES 10SP3
ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Displays pages: user
interface enhancements
This release of ATI CatalystTM Linux introduces support for a number of new display
features found in the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition, highlights include:
CRT/VGA settings
o New Size and Position page
o New HDTV page
TV settings
o New option for “Automatic setting for Size and Position adjustment”
o New image quality settings: “flicker removal” and “S-Video/Composite
sharpness”
Component Video settings
o New Scaling Options page – new Overscan / Underscan controls
o New custom mode support for 576 modes
Support for display projectors
o Enables quick display configuration of display projectors
Resolved Issues
The following section provides a brief description of resolved issues with the latest
version of the ATI CatalystTM Linux software suite. These include:
Desktop resolution changes through Catalyst Control Center are now applied on
restart of X
Catalyst Control Center: Display is now mapped to the correct desktop/screen after
X restarts
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ATI Proprietary Linux Release Notes
In dual‐head mode, performing a XRandR command (rotation or screen resolution
change) on screen 1 no longer cause both screens to display corruption
Known Issues
The following section provides a brief description of known issues associated with the
latest version of ATI CatalystTM Linux software suite. These issues include:
Catalyst Control Center: disabling one of the displays on a multi‐monitor
configuration, may become enabled on Xserver restart
On some configurations the Operating System may become unresponsive when
switching between virtual terminals
Catalyst Control Center: on some systems configurations setting a customized
modes may not be applied
Some Open GL applications may show corruption when running with CrossFire
enabled and Anti‐Alias 16x
Some systems may become unresponsive during video play back with certain Dual
Head configurations on Ubuntu 9.04 x86 64bit
Catalyst Control Center: on some systems setting a customized modes may not be
applied
Catalyst Control Center: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 ‐ 32 system may stop
responding after selecting "Detect Displays button" and hot‐plugging a HDMI display
CrossFire may fail to be enabled on some Ubuntu 9.10 configurations with ATI
Radeon HD 5900 Series adapter
X may stop responding after executing multiple Xserver generations with Xinerama
enabled on Ubunut 9.10
Catalyst Control Center: Super Anti‐Aliasing (16x) mode may not be available on
some display adapters when Crossfire is enabled
Catalyst Control Center: some system configurations may stop responding when
display scalinng has been enebled
In some Dual‐Head mode configurations a segmentation fault may occur when X is
stopped
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ATI Proprietary Linux Release Notes
[Ubuntu 9.04] Some video adapters may stop video output signals when monitor
has been powered off and powerd on again
Note: On Novell's openSUSE, SLED and SLES operating systems
running “sax2” or “sax2 -r” on the console overwrites the X.Org
configuration file xorg.conf, reverting changes made by running
“aticonfig --initial”. As a result subsequent X session may start up
using the open source Radeon on X-Vesa graphics drivers instead of
the proprietary ATI Linux Graphics Driver.
Solution: Do not use Sax2 when the proprietary Linux Graphics
Driver is installed. Instead configure all display parameters using the
Catalyst Control Center--Linux Edition or the aticonfig command
line interface.


As you can see from the notes, a lot many new features are now available from the GUI.

[rajeev1204]

Here you go . http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.36&lang=English

More control center gui options in linux now.

Opengl 3.2 extensions added upto HD 2000 series.

[Excedio]

YOu have posted for the older 9.11 release.

Here is the release notes for the new 9.12 release



As you can see from the notes, a lot many new features are now available from the GUI.


Damn them for linking 9.11 release notes on the same page!! :-D

[Ylon]

Didn't notice.. it is really Ati driver about more than 80MiB?


You can get a whole Linux distro in that size! (two "damn small linux")

[n0glu3]

New options?

[rajeev1204]

Damn them for linking 9.11 release notes on the same page!! :-D

yes i too noticed it later.They need to do some cleanup work.

Anyways, i have installed the new drivers but i dont see the changes in the GUI as they mentioned.

I do see opengl version as 3.2 now.

[Excedio]

Did you completely remove the old driver before installing the new one?

[markbuntu]

There is also a hotfix for the 9.12 driver. It fixes some problems with the 5xxx and 4xxx cards.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst912Hotfix.aspx

[handy]

There some detailed info on this topic, posted here in the Arch forum:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=673866#p673866

& in following posts in that thread, as previously linked in post_190 of this thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1238129

Unfortunately the patch hasn't made catalyst 9.12 compatible with xorg-server 1.7 yet. :(

[Exodist]

9.12.. ARGHH!!! I just installed 9.11 two hours ago!!! /goes back to AMD site!!

[doorknob60]

No new Xorg support yet? No thanks...how long can it take them?

[Nerd King]

Just use the open drivers if you want up-to-date xorg support. They're actually pretty bloody awesome now.

[handy]

Just use the open drivers if you want up-to-date xorg support. They're actually pretty bloody awesome now.

I'll wait until the kernel .32 comes out of Arch [testing], which should be any day now, the kernel headers came out yesterday. :)

I'm really in no great rush, though it surely is going to be great to kiss catalyst goodbye forever. :guitar:

[Nerd King]

As I joked in another thread, I thought arch was supposed to be bleeding edge ;) Beaten by Ubuntu? Who'd have thought it?

[PurposeOfReason]

I'll wait until the kernel .32 comes out of Arch [testing], which should be any day now, the kernel headers came out yesterday. :)

I'm really in no great rush, though it surely is going to be great to kiss catalyst goodbye forever. :guitar:
Say what you will, but unless the open drivers can backwards engineer eyefinity I want catalyst.

[handy]

As I joked in another thread, I thought arch was supposed to be bleeding edge ;) Beaten by Ubuntu? Who'd have thought it?

The kernel .32, was released, from memory on the 5-12-09, where it would have gone into the Arch [testing] repo', so as to be sure that it is safe to use as is, or if bugs were found to get them fixed upstream (usually).

Many are using it with no troubles on Arch & other distros. The guys are getting great results on ATi R600 & R700 core GPUs in Arch.

I just couldn't be bothered these days going jumping through the hoops of using combinations of [testing] .git & the like to get the open-source drivers functioning at their current peak with kernel .32.

So I'll just wait as I said before until at least the kernel is out of [testing]; I may even decide to wait until kernel .33 comes out of [testing], as open-source 3D will be even faster for my GPU then & other necessary versions of packages will be beyond .git & [testing].

I don't use Arch for its so called cutting edge versioning, or the inherent increases in speed; I just use it because I'm lazy. :lolflag:

[handy]

Say what you will, but unless the open drivers can backwards engineer eyefinity I want catalyst.

Use whatever does it for you!

I LOVE freedom of choice. :)

[Nerd King]

On the subject of .33 rc1 is now available at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.33-rc1/ for the brave. Combine with xorg-edgers PPA as always, and forget about getting Catalyst to work with it, it aint gonna happen!

[spigy11]

Cool, Cairo-Dock is finally working with OpenGL after installing 9.12 --> used sh ./ati* --buildpkg Ubuntu/karmic for Karmic Koala ;)

Cheers :D

[kreggz]

so does video still flicker?

[jvdurme]

Well, the 9.12 didn't work here on Jaunty.
First completely removed old drivers (this worked since this is the 3rd ATI installation I did).
First the package build failed because I had to install libQtGui4, whatever that might be.
Then building went fine, deb installation too. Restart.
Splash screen is there, but when I'm supposed to have the login screen, the screen goes black. I hear the Ubuntu drum, but black.

Couldn't find a solution on the net, so went back to 9.11. Works fine.

I do have a quite complex dual-head set up with SwapScreen and so.... but it works for previous versions ....

[rajeev1204]

I installed it with the first option , not a package build which failed for me.

But anyways, i cant see the new control center enhancements like HDTV etc ,Flicker free tv out etc as said in the release notes.

Anyone know ?


rajeev

[stoner_di]

My HOWTO for Ati Catalyst 9.12 with kernel 2.6.32:


1 .Create directory and extract ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run in it with this console command:

sh ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run --extract YourDirectory

2.Go to the directory:

cd /...../YourDirectory/

3.Download these (gentoo team realise) patch`s:

1.patch

and copy them into /YourDirectory

4.Еxecute these commands:

cat 1.patch | patch -p1

5.Become root user with this command:

sudo su

(You can uninstall the old driver to work in a nice graphical environment)

6.Install drivers with this command

sh ati-installer.sh 8.682 --install

7.Reboot system

Now everything should be fine!!!!

[Qola]

Poor ATI users <3

[hornedfiend]

Hi guys,

Does anybody know if this solves my current 9.11 problem with ubuntu 9.10. The thing is that, after I install the catalyst drivers I get extremely low performance with movies (almost unplayable) and a few other things,but the drivers show up correctly. Anybody know what is that? I have an ati radeon 3470 which, unfortunately, came with my laptop (so I'm unable to change that). Also, does HDMI work (I use that a lot for movies) ?

[Pasdar]

9.12 works great on mine (ATI 4570), first driver that actually works great (ati linux standards)... I play the games in my signature in max settings great FPS...

The only issues i still have is with flickering video, when movie moves fast, etc (tearing)... hope they fix it with 10.1/2

[klemi]

Hello Ubuntu family,

I have for the first time a laptop with graphics card ATI (RADEON HD 4670). I would like to ask what was your motivation to instal the newest Catalyst driver with the patch of Gentoo?

The properitäre driver, to the Ubuntu provides a previous version of Catalyst 9.10 is according to my information.
On an Ubuntu page will get, to instal only distribution-specific version from the repository, to update only with problems on a newer version.

E.g., a difference consists in it which must not be installed the Catalyst driver from ununtu karmic once more if an update of the kernel instal became?

Which experiences do you have?
I am grateful for tips.

Klemi

[kronictokr]

Install the fglrx Driver from ATI Catalyst 9.12 For Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic 64 bit

BACK UP ANY IMPORTANT INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BACK UP ANY IMPORTANT INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Install the fglrx Driver from ATI Catalyst 9.12 For Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic


We have to create a folder to enable the instalation process
location filename
VVVV VVV
create /usr/share/ati "ati"

to do this, enter in a terminal the following command

sudo nautilus

then click "file system" from the left side of the window, then double click the file "usr" and the same with "share". once inside the "share folder, right click on a blank space, click create file, name it "ati".

leave the nautilus window open while you do the next step

download the 64bit driver from this link
VVVVVVVV
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run

now copy the downloaded file, or drag it into the file you created , (/usr/share/ati <location reminder )still open in your nautilus window.

when you have placed the "ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run" file into /usr/share/ati , close your nautilus window, and type the next command into a terminal.

sudo sh /usr/share/ati/ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/karmic

this will take a couple minutes as it gathers the proper pakages for your ati gpu. it will create debs and a change log , that will install with the following method

sudo dpkg -i *

there will be missing dependancies, go to SYSTEM>>>SYNAPTICS , and select edit top left , scroll down to and click on fix broken pakages. the click on apply, and lastly click on reload.

now go back to your terminal (to ensure ALL neded pakages are installed, and correctly follow this process exactly)
so, like i was saying, in your terminal, enter the following commands

sudo dpkg -i *

sudo aticonfig --initial

sudo sh /usr/share/ati/ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/karmic


sudo dpkg -i *

sudo aticonfig --initial

sudo reboot

MAKE SURE TO COMPLETE ALL THE STEPS BEFORE YOU REBOOT!!

AFTER YOU REBOOT
vvvvvv
to confirm , in a terminal type

fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200
OpenGL version string: 3.2.9232

if you get errors,
do this again, but i suggest you get it right the first time

sudo sh /usr/share/ati/ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/karmic

sudo dpkg -i *

sudo aticonfig --initial

sudo reboot



references
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/catalyst_910_linux.pdf

[Techsnap]

You know, you should be able to just run the file as is and run through the automatic installation. Unless you're planning to install it on more than one OS building the .deb packages is pointless at best. Install DKMS after so that it won't break with a kernel upgrade.

[Methuselah]

Catalyst!?
Run for your life!

[Pasdar]

whats up with the huge 'how to' on installing this? Just go to hard ware drivers, uninstall your current drivers. Download the file from ATI website, right click file, enable execute under permissions, run file and click install...

Anyway, 9.12 is great... i finally have a great experience on linux. everything works... i hope they fix the video flickering with their next version.

[markbuntu]

We have to create a folder to enable the instalation process
location filename
VVVV VVV
create /usr/share/ati "ati"

to do this, enter in a terminal the following command

sudo nautilus

then click "file system" from the left side of the window, then double click the file "usr" and the same with "share". once inside the "share folder, right click on a blank space, click create file, name it "ati".



You really do not want to do this since the installer creates the usr/share/ati directory and puts /amdcccle there along with the uninstall script, install log, and a few other shell scripts, doc lists etc.

You should just run the installer. If it does not work for you then you should file a bug report at launchpad so it can get fixed by the Ubuntu maintainers. I have had no problems myself using the installer for well over a year with hardy and intrepid and jaunty and karmic.

[kronictokr]

you can just run the file , yes, and it gives you generic drivers, mas as well stick to repositories...
simply running the file doest optimise the driver for you specific driver. thats why ati has the --buildpkg option, or am i again wrong. im all for the easy way, but i preffer the right way.

case and point, to install the the way you guys are saying is fine, and i appreciate your point of view

references
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206..._910_linux.pdf

edit:techsnap, i know the install does address KDMS as i read the output in terminal
but i dont know enough to say whether it affects the kernel or not. with an update. as of yet im having no problems at all using this method.

id be curious to see the output of "fglrxinfo"
to compare at least

[Techsnap]

you can just run the file , yes, and it gives you generic drivers, mas as well stick to repositories.

Misinformation at its best. Do the following Will Reboot After Automatically:


wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run && sudo sh ati-driver-installer-9-12-x86.x86_64.run && aticonfig --initial -f && sudo reboot

There, that's installing the ATi driver in one command, when the installer GUI is shown, just run through the whole thing in automatic.


simply running the file doest optimise the driver for you specific driver. thats why ati has the --buildpkg option,

It's just generating .deb files, it's not optimising ANYTHING.

[Pasdar]

roflmao, you just need to download the file and run it.... nothing more, nothing less.

[Techsnap]

roflmao, you just need to download the file and run it.... nothing more, nothing less.

Apparently some people believe that generating debs makes a difference to the driver.

[kronictokr]

im going to go over my tut, for good measure.
all the info i posted was pretty much taken from the references i posted. being from ubuntu and amd, i would suggest you harp on them. as i cant change the information that THEY provided me with. im just providing information that i thought might help other people. also in the catalyst install from the gui, if you tried it, you would notice there is no option for karmic koala. also with the debs produced, is included a changelog file, wich you would also know if you tried it. but im just a dumb newb, trying to help another newb, and since this method worked for me, and i found the information , right from the source......
its called a binary install, google it.

i was thinking of putting a tut up, using the easy way good thing i dint. you negative people are the reason microsoft is still number one. positive criticism is great, its gets you more than being a d#@%*%e and putting people down. people that are genuinely trying to help the ubuntu community, in order to make it easier for the first time user . providing people who may not be able to pay 100-300 for an os alone, with an easy to use and reliable , COMPLETE os, including pre built software options.

lets not forget why were here

intuitive advise would be greatly appreciated