ATI announces new driver support for Linux

[FaMe FacToR]

ATI Catalyst introduces early support for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04 operating system and full support for the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. Users of the Release Candidate of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) can install and test this new ATI driver via the "Hardware Drivers" utility in the System -> Administration menu. Anybody has some more info, do post...! Finally, there are official drivers for linux...!

[Solomon]

Hey!

Requirements for the new drivers :

X.Org 6.8, 6.9, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 or 7.4
Linux kernel 2.6 or higher
glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
Support for POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) is necessary for 3D programs
The following packages should be installed on your system: XFree86-Mesa-libGL, libstdc++, libgcc, XFree86-libs, fontconfig, freetype and zlib.

[Rudra.J]

Hey!
Thats really great, but it supports only three Operating System Distributions :

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux

[SmirnOFF]

Hey!
I tried these drivers right now... glxgears works great, just frame rates are a bit low, high quality rendering with HD movies, better 2D rendering then before..! Thanks Guys! This really helped me..!