Posted on Thursday, May 22 2008 @ 4:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
All of the Catalyst Linux driver releases this year have
been... well, boring. There have been a few bug fixes in each release
and new product support for the latest ATI/AMD GPUs, but no major
features have been introduced in several months. However, during this
time we've been telling you to get ready for an interesting summer and
that "we have reason to believe AMD does have some Linux work under
development that could make 2007 look boring compared to this year." It
was in 2007 that AMD had introduced their brand-new driver with AIGLX
support. Well, with the release today of Catalyst 8.5 the monthly Linux
driver releases are becoming more interesting and we should have several
exciting months ahead. What does today's Linux driver bring to the
table? We'll give you the run-down in this article, but to get you
started there is now Catalyst AI, Linux 2.6.25 support, and much
improved 2D performance!
More info
at Phoronix.
