Much newer than the embedded driver from few weeks ago. Look out for improved 2D performance and possible Xserver 1.13 support.
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*Real* AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta out now
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My first impressions:
+ No beta/hardware watermark
+ Great 2D performance (for a Catalyst driver)
+ Overscaling/Underscaling options in AMDCCCLE (new?)
+ supports Hardware acceleration in Google Chrome 22
I also did not find any new bugs so far. If you are using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, please also update your system. Unity 5.16 is now avaible, fixing some performance issues with OpenGL and multi monitor usage.Last edited by d2kx; 26 September 2012, 01:47 PM.
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Originally posted by AMDFeature Highlights of AMD Catalyst 12.9 Beta Linux? Driver: New OS Support
This release of AMD Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems.
Ubuntu 12.10 early look support
RHEL 6.3 production support
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Using http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd...x86.x86_64.zip
Code:$ sudo lspci -vvv | grep -A 35 02:00.0 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Madison [Radeon HD 5000M Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0517 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR+ <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 46 Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 2: Memory at cfee0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Region 4: I/O ports at 2000 [size=256] [virtual] Expansion ROM at cfe00000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [58] Express (v2) Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 256 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <4us, L1 unlimited ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset- DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x16, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Not Supported, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Not Supported DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis-, LTR-, OBFF Disabled LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis- Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS- Compliance De-emphasis: -6dB LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -3.5dB, EqualizationComplete-, EqualizationPhase1- EqualizationPhase2-, EqualizationPhase3-, LinkEqualizationRequest- Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: 00000000fee0f00c Data: 4152 Capabilities: [100 v1] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=010 <?> Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci $ aticonfig aticonfig: No supported adapters detected
Code:[ 2.379] (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.so: undefined symbol: noXFree86DRIExtension
Last edited by ChrisXY; 26 September 2012, 04:01 PM.
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Originally posted by legluondunet View PostI just test this beta driver with my AMD radeon 7850 on Ubuntu 12.10, nothing work, Unity did not launch.
I go back to radeon open source drivers.
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Did You installed a drivers from generated deb packages? If You install from binary an installer doesn't check some important dependencies, so acceleration doesn't work (I had similar situation ~1 year ago, but now I install drivers from deb packages and works like a charm; I didn't check it with 12.10).
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