AMD has released a new driver for ATI Radeon-chipsets, version 9.12. This driver is suitable for 32bit, or 64bit Linux versions.

Release notes

New Features

• Support for New Linux Operating Systems
  • RedFlag DT6.0 SP3
  • SLED and SLES 10SP3
• ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Displays pages: user interface enhancements
  This release of ATI Catalyst Linux introduces support for a number of new display features found in the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition, highlights include:
  • CRT/VGA settings
    • New Size and Position page
    • New HDTV page
  • TV settings
    • New option for “Automatic setting for Size and Position adjustment”
    • New image quality settings: “flicker removal” and “S-Video/Composite sharpness”
  • Component Video settings
    • New Scaling Options page – new Overscan / Underscan controls
    • New custom mode support for 576 modes
  • Support for display projectors
    • Enables quick display configuration of display projectors

Resolved Issues

• Desktop resolution changes through Catalyst Control Center are now applied on restart of X
• Catalyst Control Center: Display is now mapped to the correct desktop/screen after X restarts
• In dual-head mode, performing a XRandR command (rotation or screen resolution change) on screen 1 no longer cause both screens to display corruption

Known Issues

• Catalyst Control Center: disabling one of the displays on a multi-monitor configuration, may become enabled on Xserver restart
• On some configurations the Operating System may become unresponsive when switching between virtual terminals
• Catalyst Control Center: on some systems configurations setting a customized modes may not be applied
• Some Open GL applications may show corruption when running with CrossFire enabled and Anti-Alias 16x
• Some systems may become unresponsive during video play back with certain Dual Head configurations on Ubuntu 9.04 x86 64bit
• Catalyst Control Center: on some systems setting a customized modes may not be applied
• Catalyst Control Center: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 - 32 system may stop responding after selecting "Detect Displays button" and hot-plugging a HDMI display
• CrossFire may fail to be enabled on some Ubuntu 9.10 configurations with ATI Radeon HD 5900 Series adapter
• X may stop responding after executing multiple Xserver generations with Xinerama enabled on Ubunut 9.10
• Catalyst Control Center: Super Anti-Aliasing (16x) mode may not be available on some display adapters when Crossfire is enabled
• Catalyst Control Center: some system configurations may stop responding when display scalinng has been enebled
• In some Dual-Head mode configurations a segmentation fault may occur when X is stopped
• [Ubuntu 9.04] Some video adapters may stop video output signals when monitor has been powered off and powered on again

You can download the ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 9.12 here.