ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers 12.8 / 12.11 Beta 11

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ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers are proprietary Linux drivers for ATI/AMD Radeon cards.

ATI Radeon Linux Display Driver provides TV Output support for ATI graphics cards that support TV out. The ATI Proprietary Linux driver also allows for the following monitor arrangements:

- Laptop Mode (toggle between internal or external screen)
- Clone Mode (same content on both screens)
- Big Desktop (one desktop stretched across two screens)
- Dual Head (separate instances of X running on each screen)

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Requirements:

· POSIX Shared Memory (/dev/shm) support is required for 3D apps
· glibc version 2.2 or 2.3
· Linux kernel 2.4 or higher
· XFree86 version 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, or X.org 6.8

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Improves performance in Far Cry 3 (up to 25% with 8xMSAA, SSAO enabled @ 1600p, and up to 15% with 8xMSAA, HDAO enabled @1600p) (AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 must also be installed)
· Resolves a sporadic system hang encountered with a single AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU seen on X58 and X79 chipsets.
· Resolves an intermittent hang encountered with AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series GPUs in a CrossFire Eyefinity setup.
· Resolves image corruption found in certain DirectX 9.0c titles
· Resolve missing fonts issue in XBMC
· Resolves no video issue found in Media Player Classic Home Cinema when using full or half floating point processing
· Resolves stability issues found in the previous AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta8 driver for Linux
· For users experiencing issues with HDMI Audio under Ubuntu 12.04, users should try installing the "dkms-hda - 0.201211291615~precise1" package from https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-audio-dev/+archive/alsa-daily/+packages and reboot; this will resolve the HDMI Audio issue found in Ubuntu 12.04
· AMD Catalyst 12.11 CAP2 has just been released, and should be used in conjunction with AMD Catalyst 12.11 Beta11
· Improves Far Cry 3 performance for single GPU configurations with AA enabled

Via: ATI Radeon Linux Display Drivers 12.8 / 12.11 Beta 11