AMD 8.41 Display Driver Preview

[Michael]

8.41 will be out this Wednesday now. The Catalyst 7.9 may be delivered tomorrow, but not the Linux version.

[HighHo]

Thanks for the update.

[d2kx]

I am sure the Windows Catalyst 7.9 is avaible on wednesday, too, because they're always avaible at the same time and otherwise, AMD wouldn't have released the final Catalyst 7.9 just without WHQL as a "ET: QW Performance Hotfix", that wouldn't be necessary then.

[sundown]

When was this going to support X.Org 7.3?

[Svartalf]

8.41 will be out this Wednesday now. The Catalyst 7.9 may be delivered tomorrow, but not the Linux version.

This works. Now I can obtain it and do some tests against a few ATI GPUs to see for myself.

What you're telling us almost makes me want to buy HP's latest and greatest top-of the line notebook machine as a desktop replacement/portable machine.

[glussier]

I am sure the Windows Catalyst 7.9 is avaible on wednesday, too, because they're always avaible at the same time and otherwise, AMD wouldn't have released the final Catalyst 7.9 just without WHQL as a "ET: QW Performance Hotfix", that wouldn't be necessary then.

The catalyst 7.9 are available today:http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

[Alistair]

8.41 will be out this Wednesday now. The Catalyst 7.9 may be delivered tomorrow, but not the Linux version.

Darn -- and I have a 25 man raid on wednesday night ... guess we'll be finding out how well the drivers improve performance the hard way

[pierluc]

I have try amd driver 8.41.7 but it do not work. When I start my computer it write "aucun signal" (no sigal).

The command
lspci | grep ATI

give me that:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] (Secondary)

I have modify xorg.conf with
PCI :1:0:1
and
PCI :1:0:0 (default)

And it do not work

Finally a have run the command:
sudo envy -t

and reinstall the fglrx 8.40.4

at that time it work.

Is it possible to use the driver 8.41.4 with an redeon 9550 and an screen Benq FP93G X connecting on dvi port?

[glussier]

Is it possible to use the driver 8.41.4 with an redeon 9550 and an screen Benq FP93G X connecting on dvi port?

I don't see why it shouldn't work, it works for me with a 9600Pro. The 9550 is a lower clocked 9600 core, so there should be no problem with that kind of setup.

BTW I think I know you from another forum.

[uhoh]

What a complete let-down the 8.41 release was.

• Doesn't really support anything but the newest cards
• OpenGL support is MIA
• Still gives display and mouse cursor corruption. How is that possible if the driver is a "brand new codebase"?
• No support for X 7.3 / X server 1.4 at ALL which leaves Debian Unstable users completely out in the cold
• And yet again, we're told to "just wait"...