ATI Catalyst Display Driver 8.4
April 17th, 2008 by CrusaderAMD has released their monthly Linux ATI Catalyst display driver package for their graphics cards; the requisite release notes delineate these changes:
- Introduces early look support for Ubuntu 8.04.
- Selecting Wait for vertical retrace in the AMD Catalyst Control Center – Linux Edition no longer results in the FPS of the application not matching the display’s vertical refresh rate.
- A black screen is no longer observed on some hardware when switching to the console or leaving the X window system when a Vesa framebuffer console driver is used.
- Video Playback is no longer displays incorrect colors and additional shadow images when cropping or expanding a video file using a video player that utilizes the XVideo extension.
Download: [ amd.com ]




April 17th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
“Introduces early look support for Ubuntu 8.04.”
I believe this means nothing as long as their site doesn’t host the Debian package.