Neben dem monatlich veröffentlichten Windows Catalyst Treiber-Update (<a href="http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/newspub/viewnews.cgi?category=2&id=1228927060">wir berichteten</a>) hat AMD auch aktualisierte Linux-Treiber zum Download bereitgestellt.<blockquote><b>New Features</b>
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the
Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:
<blockquote>• Support for New Linux Operating Systems
• Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Information Center Enhancement
• ATI Stream Computing Support
• SurroundView™ support</blockquote>
<b>Support for New Linux Operating Systems</b>
<blockquote>This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new
operating system:
<blockquote>• Ubuntu 8.10 support – early look</blockquote></blockquote>
<b> Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Information
Center Enhacement</b>
<blockquote>This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces enhancements to the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Bus bandwidth and memory bandwidth informa-
tion is now included in the Information Center. </blockquote>
<b>ATI Stream Computing Support</b>
<blockquote>With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated
applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon™
graphics processors worldwide
<blockquote>• ATI Stream computing harnesses the tremendous processing power of the
graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive compu-
tations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
• ATI Stream technology enables the hundreds of parallel Stream cores inside
AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These
capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different
tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with opti-
mized performance or with new functionality.</blockquote></blockquote>
<b>SurroundView™ support</b>
<blockquote>This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux enables users to render multiple OpenGL applications across single/multiple displays.
<blockquote>• SurroundView™ can be enabled across a single discrete ATI Radeon™
graphics accelerator (ATI Radeon™ X1300 and higher product) and an AMD
Integrated graphics product ( ATI Radeon 1200 Series, ATI Radeon 3100
Series, ATI Radeon 3200 Series and, Radeon 3300 Series Integrated graphics)</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<b>Download:</b><ul><li><a href="http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html" target="b">ATI Catalyst 8.12 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver</a></li><li><a href="http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux64/linux64-radeon.html" target="b">ATI Catalyst 8.12 Proprietary Linux x86_64 Display Driver</a></li></ul><b>Links zum Thema:</b><ul><li><a href="http://www.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=12925&stc=1&d=1229072463" target="_blank">Release Notes</a></li><li><a href="http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/newspub/viewnews.cgi?category=2&id=1228927060">ATI CATALYST 8.12 Grafiktreiber für Windows</A></li></ul>