New Features

Support for New Linux Operating Systems

This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:

• RHEL 5.5 production support

Official support for OpenGL 4.0 and OpenGL 3.3

• ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 4.0 on the ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series
• ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers official support for OpenGL 3.3 on the ATI Radeon HD Series

2D performance enhancements

• ATI Catalyst 10.6 delivers a new architecture for 2D acceleration. The new 2D architecture delivers fast windows resizing with Compiz/Visual-Effects and general 2D performance improvements in all AMD supported Linux distributions.

Resolved Issues

• "Xorg -probeonly" no longer causes screen corruption or the system to fail to respond

• ATI Catalyst 10.6 Proprietary Linux x86 & x86_64 Display Driver

• Release Notes
• ATI Catalyst 10.6 Linux Installer Note
• ATI Proprietary Linux Driver FAQ
• Linux Crew Driver Feedback