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AMD Catalyst 12.6 For Linux Disappoints
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this release fixes A LOT of bugs.
Oh but this is soooo disappointing...
it is? why? what do you expect from one release to the next? World shattering performance improvements?
Stuff like this is only disappointing if someone artificially increased expectations beforehand.
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Originally posted by devguy View PostI was unable to get the Catalyst 12.6 beta work with neither kernel 3.4.x nor XServer 1.12 on Ubuntu 12.04. Worked acceptably with 3.3.x and 1.11, though.
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Just posting to say that I'M NOT HAPPY AMD!!!!
Just fresh installed Debian Wheezy on a PC with a fairly new 6550 graphics card.. The open source drivers were unusable because the display was so corrupted.. Debian Wheezy recently got the new 12.1 xserver-xorg-core package and now the AMD Catalyst 12.6 x86_64 drivers are broken on 64-bit Linux!! Something about the Catalyst 12.6 driver needing to pass a 64-bit pointer but is instead passing a 32-bit pointer + some corruption to xserver-xorg which causes newer 64-bit compiled versions of xserver-xorg-core (12.1) to crash instantly before loading the desktop!!
I'm not happy AMD, not happy at all.. At this point, both your open source and Catalyst drivers are broken for me.. I had to pin the old xserver* from Debian stable (Squeeze) to get the Catalyst 12.6 drivers to stop causing xserver-xorg to crash because it's sending a partially corrupted pointer on a 64-bit OS! Apparently this has been a known bug for over a month against the 12.6 Catalyst drivers and AMD doesn't seem to have done anything about it!!!
FIX IT PLEASE!!!Last edited by Sidicas; 02 July 2012, 12:00 AM.
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Originally posted by Sidicas View PostJust posting to say that I'M NOT HAPPY AMD!!!!
Just fresh installed Debian Wheezy on a PC with a fairly new 6550 graphics card.. The open source drivers were unusable because the display was so corrupted.. Debian Wheezy recently got the new 12.1 xserver-xorg-core package and now the AMD Catalyst 12.6 x86_64 drivers are broken on 64-bit Linux!! Something about the Catalyst 12.6 driver needing to pass a 64-bit pointer but is instead passing a 32-bit pointer + some corruption to xserver-xorg which causes newer 64-bit compiled versions of xserver-xorg-core (12.1) to crash instantly before loading the desktop!!
I'm not happy AMD, not happy at all.. At this point, both your open source and Catalyst drivers are broken for me.. I had to pin the old xserver* from Debian stable (Squeeze) to get the Catalyst 12.6 drivers to stop causing xserver-xorg to crash because it's sending a partially corrupted pointer on a 64-bit OS! Apparently this has been a known bug for over a month against the 12.6 Catalyst drivers and AMD doesn't seem to have done anything about it!!!
FIX IT PLEASE!!!
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